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The following tables contain information on respite admissions:Respite Admissions - year to 31 March 2000

Local Authority	Residential Care Homes	Private Nursing Homes1,2,3,4	Total
Aberdeen City5	1,000	210	1,210
Aberdeenshire5	1,385	235	1,620
Angus	453	38	491
Argyll & Bute	672	42	714
Clackmannanshire	52	23	75
Dumfries & Galloway	664	130	794
Dundee City	1,102	276	1,378
East Ayrshire5	454	169	623
East Dunbartonshire	127	125	252
East Lothian5	213	568	781
East Renfrewshire	10	116	126
Edinburgh, City of5	4,025	419	4,444
Eilean Siar	177	18	195
Falkirk	302	243	545
Fife	3,070	578	3,648
Glasgow City	4,571	656	5,227
Highland	3,181	374	3,555
Inverclyde	1,145	51	1,196
Midlothian5	838	120	958
Moray5	564	34	598
North Ayrshire5	500	402	902
North Lanarkshire	2,902	170	3,072
Orkney Islands	302		302
Perth & Kinross5	955	761	1,716
Renfrewshire	532	439	971
Scottish Borders5	264	62	326
Shetland Islands	437		437
South Ayrshire5	1,138	133	1,271
South Lanarkshire	2,081	522	2,603
Stirling	714	184	898
West Dunbartonshire	747	42	789
West Lothian5	407	158	565
Scotland	34,984	7,298	42,282

Source: ISD Scotland, ISD(34).HD: Social Work Statistics; R1 Return.Notes:1. Private nursing homes subject to the Nursing Homes Registration (Scotland) Act 1938 (as amended), or the Mental Health Act 1960/1984. It also includes a few "other" establishments, e.g. hospices registered under the Act.2. The figures shown are based on information supplied by nursing homes at the end of the financial year. It is understood from health boards that a small number of other nursing homes have not been able to provide the information requested. Data from these nursing homes (around 30 in total) and data from private hospitals also registered under the Acts, are not included in the table. For this reason caution should be used when interpreting the trends in the table. Any change in respite admissions could be due to non-submission of data in any year. Health boards with particular issues are noted in the table above.3. Patients admitted on a non-permanent basis to assist their normal carer.4. Health board area refers to that of the private nursing home and is not necessarily the normal health board area of residence of the patient receiving respite.5. Data for this health board are affected by incomplete returns across one or both years, as referred to in note 2 above.Respite Admissions - year to 31 March 2000

			Non-Obstetric Non-Psychiatric	Mental Illness Learning Disability Hospital	Admissions to long stay facilities in Geriatric Medicine10 11
Health Board	Residential Care Homes	Private Nursing Homes1,2,3,4	Hospital Discharges6 7	Unit Admissions8 9		Total
Argyll & Clyde	2,550	570	209	583	32	3,944
Ayrshire & Arran5	2,092	704	220	1,085	219	4,320
Borders	264	62	141	26	67	560
Dumfries & Galloway	664	130	35	610	3	1,442
Fife	3,070	578	54	499	5	4,206
Forth Valley	1,068	450	173	222	172	2,085
Grampian5	2,949	479	333	247	4	4,012
Greater Glasgow	5,848	950	129	120	80	7,127
Highland	3,181	374	408	104	36	4,103
Lanarkshire	4,389	643	209	336	64	5,641
Lothian5	5,483	1,265	1,132	432	532	8,844
Orkney	302	-	4	1	-	307
Shetland	437	-	-	-	-	437
Tayside	2,510	1,075	223	561	11	4,380
Western Isles	177	18	124	-	-	319
Scotland	34,984	7,298	3,394	4,826	1,225	51,727

Source: ISD Scotland: ISD(34); SMR01; SMR50HD: Social Work Statistics; R1 Return.Notes:1. Private nursing homes subject to the Nursing Homes Registration (Scotland) Act 1938 (as amended), or the Mental Health Act 1960/1984. It also includes a few "other" establishments, e.g. hospices registered under the Act.2. The figures shown are based on information supplied by nursing homes at the end of the financial year. It is understood from health boards that a small number of other nursing homes have not been able to provide the information requested. Data from these nursing homes (around 30 in total) and data from private hospitals also registered under the Acts, are not included in the table. For this reason caution should be used when interpreting the trends in the table. Any change in respite admissions could be due to non-submission of data in any year. Health boards with particular issues are noted in the table above.3. Patients admitted on a non-permanent basis to assist their normal carer.4. Health board area refers to that of the private nursing home and is not necessarily the normal health board area of residence of the patient receiving respite.5. Data for this health board are affected by incomplete returns across one or both years, as referred to in note 2 above.6. Discharges from non-obstetric/non-psychiatric specialties in NHS hospitals in Scotland.7. Defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Volume 10, (ICD10) code Z75.5 (holiday relief care) recorded as a principal diagnosis.8. Discharges from mental illness hospitals, psychiatric units and learning disability hospitals in Scotland.9. Status on Admission defined as "Informal - holiday/respite".10. Discharges from long stay facilities in the specialty of Geriatric Medicine in NHS hospitals in Scotland.11. Defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Volume 10, (ICD10) code Z75.5 (holiday relief care) recorded as "Main Contributory Social Factor on Admission".

Core curricular time is already devoted to special educational needs in Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programmes. In addition, training for special educational needs is being examined in the review of ITE which began earlier this year. The first stage of the Review has now been completed, and the Executive plans to publish its associated Action Plan in the near future.Training to meet special educational needs is also a key element of teachers' continuing professional development (CPD). The CPD framework is also currently under review and the Educational Inclusion Sub Group of the Ministerial Strategy Committee on CPD is looking at inclusion issues, including special educational needs. Recommendations will be made in due course.

All doctors working as consultants or specialist registrars in paediatrics or psychiatry will be members of, respectively, either the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health or the Royal College of Psychiatrists. The membership examinations for both institutions require a knowledge of child and adolescent mental health, and theoretical knowledge of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) will be included.Information is not collected on those staff who undertake any specific additional training in ADHD. However, all consultants in the specialty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry will have received training in the assessment, diagnosis and management of patients with ADHD during their higher specialist training.

Planning meetings about the establishment of a Scottish Medicines Consortium are under way. It is hoped that an announcement about its remit and budget will be made early in the New Year.

The Mental Illness Specific Grant is £19 million for 2001-02. The Scottish Executive pays 70% of this funding (£13.3 million) through specific grant, with the remainder being met by local authorities from general budget provision.

The information for patients not subject to a restriction order is not available centrally. Patients on a Hospital Order and Restriction Order become subject to the provisions of Part VI of the 1984 Act and are referred to as "restricted patients". The majority of restricted patients who abscond return to hospital within 24 hours. Because of issues of confidentiality under the Data Protection Act 1998, it is not possible to break the figures down by NHS Board area. In Scotland as a whole, the figures are as follows:

1998	15
1999	7
2000	11

We shall continue to issue guidance to local authorities that they regularly monitor and review the effectiveness of projects, and that those which are proven valuable and necessary in meeting needs locally should be considered for funding from authorities' mainstream social work expenditure.

The Performance Assessment Framework will form the mandatory core framework for assessing the performance of NHSScotland. This assessment will encompass a wide range of activities undertaken by NHS boards including the implementation of relevant national priorities set out in Our National Health.

The information requested is set out in the following table.

Police force area	Year	Applications
		New firearm certificate		Renewal of firearm certificate
		Granted	Refused	Granted	Refused
Central	1998	40	3	-	-
	1999	24	-	-	-
	2000	53	-	251	-
Dumfries & Galloway	1998	70	-	47	1
	1999	48	-	12	-
	2000	118	-	480	-
Fife	1998	27	1	1	-
	1999	47	-	1	-
	2000	51	1	287	-
Grampian	1998	192	7	-	7
	1999	201	2	12	-
	2000	311	2	1,158	2
Lothian & Borders	1998	175	-	5	1
	1999	117	2	-	-
	2000	148	4	857	3
Northern	1998	180	1	5	5
	1999	184	5	123	-
	2000	228	2	2,024	1
Strathclyde	1998	181	1	-	-
	1999	126	1	-	-
	2000	118	-	918	1
Tayside	1998	97	7	-	-
	1999	110	2	-	-
	2000	125	1	915	1
Annual totals for all police forces	1998	962	20	58	14
	1999	857	12	148	-
	2000	1,152	10	6,890	8

None. Firearms policy and legislation are reserved matters and responsibility for policy on firearms licensing rests with the Home Office.The Home Office, in consultation with police forces and with Her Majesty's Inspectorates of Constabulary, will be carrying out a review of firearms licensing fees and efficiency over the coming year.