- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 4 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive in relation to how many individuals has a supervision order been disclosed on their disclosure certificate.
Answer
Between April 2002 and March 2010, Disclosure Scotland has issued 4.5 million disclosure certificates. To establish completely accurate figures about the number of individuals where a supervision order has been disclosed would involve disproportionate cost as that would require a manual search of the content of each certificate.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 4 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether legal advice it issued to Disclosure Scotland in 2006 indicating that supervision orders in relation to which an offence had been committed should be disclosed on certificates has been challenged in court.
Answer
As noted in my previous answer, it is not the practice of the government to disclose whether it has sought legal advice in relation to a particular matter. Disclosure Scotland has not had a legal challenge relating to the inclusion of information about supervision orders on certificates.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 4 May 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has published legal advice it issued to Disclosure Scotland in 2006 indicating that supervision orders in relation to which an offence had been committed should be disclosed on certificates.
Answer
It is not the practice of the government, as indicated in the Scottish Ministerial Code, to disclose whether it has sought legal advice in relation to a particular matter.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 28 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive in how many schools history is taught by someone without a history qualification in (a) S1 and (b) S2 and how this compares with (i) two, (ii) four and (iii) eight years ago.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33252 on 28 April 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 16 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 28 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that the Guidelines for Initial Teacher Education and the Standard for Initial Teacher Education put an onus on ministers to approve only the accreditation of Initial Teacher Education programmes that prepare all new teachers with the competencies to teach modern languages in the primary school, given the position of modern languages in the primary curriculum.
Answer
The General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS), which is currently being established as the independent, profession-led regulatory body for the teaching profession in Scotland, conducts a thorough process of accreditation of all programmes of Initial Teacher Education (ITE). Officials on behalf of the Scottish ministers approve programmes only on the basis of the council''s recommendations.
The Donaldson Review of teacher education will consider the concerns that have been raised relating to the teaching of modern foreign languages in primary schools.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 28 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what information is held on the time spent teaching history in (a) primary schools, (b) S1 and (c) S2 and in comparison with the teaching of other subjects.
Answer
Information is not held centrally on the time spent teaching history in schools or on how schools teach history, including whether history is taught by someone without a history qualification. Curriculum for Excellence provides flexibility on time and content to teach history in the context of the experiences and outcomes and other curriculum guidance.
Developing knowledge and understanding of the world and Scotland''s place in it is among the learner entitlements in Curriculum for Excellence and the Social Studies principles and practice guidance makes clear that children and young people''s experiences will be broadened using Scottish, British, European and wider contexts for learning, while maintaining a focus on the historical, social, geographic, economic and political changes that have shaped Scotland.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 28 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive in how many schools history is taught as a separate subject in (a) S1 and (b) S2 and how this compares with (i) two, (ii) four and (iii) eight years ago.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33252 on 28 April 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 28 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how much time is spent teaching world history in (a) primary schools, (b) S1 and (c) S2.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33252 on 28 April 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 28 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what information is held on the breadth of the history curriculum in (a) primary schools, (b) S1 and (c) S2, including the coverage of Scottish, British, European and world history, and the balance between those topics.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33252 on 28 April 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Ken Macintosh, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 April 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 28 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how much time is spent teaching Scottish history in (a) primary schools, (b) S1 and (c) S2.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-33252 on 28 April 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
