- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 24 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what training exists for teaching professionals to enable them to identify pupils at risk of deliberate self-harm.
Answer
As part of their initial teachertraining, student teachers are required to undertake a core module on healtheducation which is designed to develop their understanding of health, health promotionand related issues. The module covering health education includes an introductionto the variety of counselling approaches and techniques designed to support pupilsand children in dealing effectively with their emotional well-being.
With regard to Continuing ProfessionalDevelopment, a number of organisations provide training on dealing with self-harmin young people for teaching professionals across Scotland.
Other support is available toteaching professionals for example, The ScottishExecutive’s handbook on child protection in education, Safe and Well (2005),provides information on a range of issues concerning children’s care and welfareto guide the practice of teaching professionals, including a section to help schoolstaff recognise and respond effectively to pupils who self-harm. Happy, Safeand Achieving the Potential (2004), the report of the National Review of Guidance,gives a 10-point standard for personal support in Scottish schools, including effectiveco-ordination of support with other agencies and time to listen to children.
In addition, The Scottish Health Promoting Schools Unit (SHPSU) worksto increase awareness of the partnerships, networks and organisations at local levelthat can support schools in work around mental and emotional health in schools,including self harming.
The website
www.healthpromotingschools.co.ukis continually updated to provide information about resources and support (includingtraining) and links widely to the organisations that specialise in particular issues.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 24 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what conclusions have been reached regarding the factors that place young people at risk from self-harm and what research it has undertaken to support these conclusions.
Answer
The recent National Inquiry intoSelf-Harm Among Young People,
Truth Hurts (
www.selfharmuk.org) drew together findingsfrom a number of studies to highlight many reasons why young people self-harm. Thetwo-year inquiry was jointly run by The Camelot Foundation and The Mental HealthFoundation and took evidence from Executive officials.With funding from the Executive,a study is currently exploring the links between self harm and suicide in youngpeople.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 24 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has for robust evaluation of all types of interventions and treatments for young people found to be deliberately self-harming.
Answer
As at January 2006,there were approximately 50 part- or fully-funded Choose Life initiatives acrossScotland where tackling self-harm was identified asa key aim of local Choose Life action plans. All these initiatives are requiredto indicate how, and by when, they will measure success in reaching and impactingon their target groups.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 24 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many self-harming incidents there have been involving (a) cutting, (b) burning and (c) banging amongst people under 18 in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board area.
Answer
Number of Continuous In-patientStays (CIS) involving an admission for deliberate self harm due to burning or cuttingin children under 18 years, by NHS board of residence; year ending 31 December 1999-2004.
| Injury | NHS Board of Residence | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |
| Burning | Scotland | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - |
| | Fife | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| | Lothian | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - |
| Cutting | Scotland | 59 | 42 | 39 | 68 | 53 | 50 |
| | Argyll and Clyde | 6 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| | Ayrshire and Arran | 8 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 7 |
| | Borders | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| | Dumfries and Galloway | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | 1 |
| | Fife | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 |
| | Forth Valley | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| | Grampian | 4 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 12 |
| | Greater Glasgow | 10 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 3 |
| | Highland | 7 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 6 | 5 |
| | Lanarkshire | 3 | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| | Lothian | 14 | 15 | 17 | 30 | 14 | 9 |
| | Shetland | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| | Tayside | - | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| | Other | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 |
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 24 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were given counselling as a result of deliberate self-harming incidents in each year since 2000, broken down by NHS board or local authority area.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 24 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many drop-in centres are available for young people who deliberately self-harm, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 24 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to increase the robustness of the evaluation criteria used in anti-bullying strategies in schools.
Answer
The Scottish Executive has commissioneda guide to good practice in school anti-bullying policies and strategies. Thiswill be disseminated to schools in the summer of 2006 and will advise on approachesto self-evaluation of anti-bullying work within schools.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 19 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people presenting with mental health problems, other than depression, have been offered self-help options as part of their treatment, broken down by NHS board in each year since 2001.
Answer
Such referral information isnot available centrally. Treatment options are a matter for clinicians in consultationwith all relevant professionals and the individual. Relevant care options will beconsidered as part of care packages designed to offer the best outcomes for theindividual.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 19 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people presenting with mental health problems, other than depression, were offered treatments such as psychological interventions, cognitive behaviour therapy and talking therapies in addition to, or as an alternative to, the prescribing of psychiatric drugs in each year since 2001.
Answer
Such referral information isnot available centrally. Treatment options are a matter for Clinicians in consultationwith all relevant professionals and the individual. Relevant care options will beconsidered as part of care packages designed to offer the best outcomes for theindividual.
- Asked by: Adam Ingram, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 19 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether NHS boards use an independently administered, standard evaluation tool for all Doing Well By People with Depression initiatives and, if so, whether it will provide details of this tool.
Answer
NHS boards do not use an independentlyadministered, standard evaluation tool for Doing Well by People with Depressioninitiatives. However, an external evaluation of the programme has been commissionedand is due to report its findings in June 2006. The pilot sites involved in theprojects have provided data according to a nationally agreed dataset.
