Chamber and committees

A parenting ordershould (or can) only be considered wherea parent has been offered help and support on a voluntary basis and has refusedto engage with this support. The Executive has offered funds to local authoritiesto establish such support services and many offers of such help have been takenup.

No parenting orders have yetbeen applied for or granted.

A parenting ordershould only be considered where a parenthas been offered help and support on a voluntary basis and has refused to engagewith this support.

No parenting orders have yetbeen applied for or granted.

The information requested isgiven in the following table.

Households Benefiting fromDisabled Band Reduction Scheme

Local Authority	2005
Scotland	13,186
Aberdeen City	344
Aberdeenshire	542
Angus	289
Argyll and Bute	351
Clackmannanshire	164
Dumfries and Galloway	491
Dundee City	330
East Ayrshire	391
East Dunbartonshire	288
East Lothian	228
East Renfrewshire	208
Edinburgh, City of	820
Eilean Siar	92
Falkirk	391
Fife	765
Glasgow City	1,333
Highland	626
Inverclyde	158
Midlothian	199
Moray	258
North Ayrshire	399
North Lanarkshire	837
Orkney Islands	91
Perth and Kinross	400
Renfrewshire	433
Scottish Borders	231
Shetland Islands	48
South Ayrshire	428
South Lanarkshire	1,044
Stirling	303
West Dunbartonshire	227
West Lothian	477

Source: As reported bycouncils in the CTAXBASE form (Council Tax Base form) returned in September2005.

Provisions included in the AntiSocial Behaviour (Scotland) Act 2004 for electronic monitoring of offenders under16 years of age who are dealt with by the court system commenced in April 2005.A total of three Restriction of Liberty Orders have been imposed on under 16-year-oldssince the provisions commenced. Of these, two were imposed by Glasgow Sheriff Court and one by Dundee Sheriff Court. Restriction of Liberty Orders for under 16-year-oldsare a court sentence and a direct alternative to custody. They cannot be made byapplication or recommendation.

This information is not held centrally in the detail requested. The statutory supervision of offenders on licenceis the responsibility of local authority criminal justice social work services.

The Scottish Executive iscurrently collecting annual data on the use of antisocial behaviour orders(ASBOs) via a survey undertaken by DTZ Pieda Consulting and Heriot-Watt University.This survey began in 2003-04. Figures onthe number of applications for antisocial behaviour orders (ASBOs) made by eachLocal Authority are provided in the following Table1.

Data on the number of ASBOsgranted in each Local Authority area which has been supplied by our researchwas not disaggregated to show which originated from Local Authorities andRegistered Social Landlords. Table 2.5 of ‘Useof Antisocial Behaviour Orders in Scotland: Report of the 2004-05 Survey’ (available on the Scottish Executive website) provides figures which include both. For thepurposes of this PQ we asked DTZ Pieda and Heriot-Watt Universityif they could disaggregate the figures for 2004-05. The final column of the followingtable shows the number of Local Authority applications for full ASBOs that weresubsequently granted in that financial year.

Table 1: ASBO applicationsby Local Authorities  2003-04 to 2004-05 and orders granted in 2004-05

Local Authority
	Applications  2003/04	Applications 2004/05	Orders granted 2004/05
Aberdeen City	12	11	11
Aberdeenshire	0	0	0
Angus	2	3	3
Argyll & Bute	0	0	0
Clackmannanshire	1	4	2
Dumfries and Galloway	5	16	6
Dundee City	21	13	8
East Ayrshire	4	6	5
East Dunbartonshire	0	0	0
East Lothian	2	1	1
East Renfrewshire	1	4	3
Edinburgh, City of	4	24	11
Eilean Siar	0	1	1
Falkirk	1	8	2
Fife	18	16	14
Glasgow	0	0	0
Highland	5	12	12
Inverclyde	0	6	6
Midlothian	0	3	2
Moray	3	1	1
North Ayrshire	0	9	4
North Lanarkshire	39	25	23
Orkney Islands	2	1	0
Perth & Kinross	0	5	5
Renfrewshire	13	15	14
Scottish Borders	6	12	10
Shetland Islands	1	0	1
South Ayrshire	1	2	2
South Lanarkshire	20	14	7
Stirling	15	9	4
West Dunbartonshire	3	5	4
West Lothian	4	7	7
Total	183	233	169

SOURCE: The Use ofAntisocial Behaviour Orders in Scotland: Results of the 2004-05 Survey (DTZ Pieda Consulting and Heriot-Watt University) andCommunities Scotland Annual Performance Statistical Returns.

The Scottish Executive iscurrently collecting annual data on the use of antisocial behaviour orders(ASBOs) via a survey undertaken by DTZ Pieda Consulting and Heriot-Watt University. Dataon the number of applications for interim ASBOs is not being collected as partof this survey. However, the survey has collected information on thenumber of interim ASBOs that have been granted. Since the power to applyfor ASBOs was not extended to RSLs until 27 June 2003,the financial year 2004-05 is the first full year for which we have data aboutthe use that RSLs are making of this power. In that year only 22 of the 181interim ASBOs that were granted were initiated by RSLs and these cases werelocated in only 8 Local Authority areas. The 8 Local Authority areas and thenumber of ASBOs from each are shown in the following table.

Interim ASBO application byRegistered Social Landlords that were granted in 2004-05 by local authorityarea.

Area	Interim ASBOs granted 2004-05
Aberdeen City	3
Angus	2
Dundee City	3
Edinburgh, City of	1
Fife	1
Glasgow	9
Stirling	2
Orkney Islands	1
Total	22

SOURCE: The Use of Antisocial Behaviour Orders in Scotland:Results of the 2004-05 Survey (DTZ Pieda Consulting and Heriot-Watt University) andCommunities Scotland Annual Performance Statistical Returns 2004-05.

The Scottish Executive doesnot collate information on the number of applications for dispersal orders. Upto the end of March 2006, 6 dispersal orders had been granted in 4 locationsacross Scotland. Dispersal orders were granted in the followinglocal authority areas – Aberdeen (2), City of Edinburgh (2), West Lothian (1) and Highland(1).

 

This information isavailable in our community newsletter www.antisocialbehaviourscotland.com

The Scottish Executive hasno annual data on the number of applications for antisocial behaviour ordersfor under 16-year-olds.

In 2004-05 no orders weregranted in respect of this age group and in 2005-06 four orders were granted.Two of these were in Edinburgh, one in Renfrewshire and one in Dundee. Allof the 4 orders that were granted in 2005-06 were in respect of applicationsmade by Local Authorities rather than Registered Social Landlords (RSLs).

I refer the member to the questionS2W-27324 answered on 8 August 2006. All answers to written PQs are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search