- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 10 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 24 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has received any applications for support from the interim route development fund to create new services from Glasgow Airport.
Answer
All Scottish airports areeligible to receive support from the route development fund and, wherever thereis a commercial interest, the Executive and Scottish Enterprise will progressapplications fairly and quickly. Discussions with airlines on the potential fornew routes out of any airport in Scotland are commercially confidential and would not be madepublic until any offer of investment from the interim route dvelopment fnd hasbeen accepted.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 24 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many children are currently accommodated in residential school placements and how many have been assessed as requiring such a placement but are awaiting funding.
Answer
Statistics on childrenaccommodated in residential school placements were published on 31 October 2003, in
Children’s Social Work Statistics 2002-03 (Table 3). These figures areavailable on the Scottish Executive website at
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00287-00.asp.We do not hold informationof those awaiting residential school placements.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 24 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many looked after children there are, expressed also as a percentage of child population, in (a) residential care, (b) foster care and (c) care in the community in each local authority area.
Answer
Statistics on looked afterchildren as a percentage of the child population were published on 31 October2003, in
Children’s Social Work Statistics 2002-03 (Table 10). Thesefigures are available on the Scottish Executive website at
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00287-00.asp.Details of looked afterchildren in residential care, foster care, and other community placements aregiven in the following table.
| | Residential Care | Foster Care | Other Community |
| Local authority area | No. | Per 1,000 people 0-17 | No. | Per 1,000 people 0-17 | No. | Per 1,000 people 0-17 |
| Aberdeen City | 70 | 2 | 95 | 3 | 230 | 6 |
| Aberdeenshire | 40 | 1 | 115 | 2 | 200 | 4 |
| Angus | 15 | 1 | 95 | 4 | 70 | 3 |
| Argyll and Bute | 45 | 2 | 40 | 2 | 140 | 7 |
| Clackmannanshire | 15 | 1 | 35 | 3 | 65 | 6 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 20 | 1 | 145 | 5 | 190 | 6 |
| Dundee City | 40 | 1 | 125 | 4 | 195 | 7 |
| East Ayrshire | 25 | 1 | 85 | 3 | 235 | 9 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 15 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 65 | 3 |
| East Lothian | 15 | 1 | 80 | 4 | 80 | 4 |
| East Renfrewshire | 5 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 50 | 2 |
| Edinburgh, City of | 165 | 2 | 340 | 4 | 610 | 7 |
| Eilean Siar | 5 | 1 | 15 | 3 | 35 | 6 |
| Falkirk | 35 | 1 | 105 | 3 | 120 | 4 |
| Fife | 70 | 1 | 200 | 3 | 230 | 3 |
| Glasgow City | 330 | 3 | 705 | 6 | 1,395 | 12 |
| Highland | 65 | 1 | 95 | 2 | 205 | 5 |
| Inverclyde | 50 | 3 | 25 | 1 | 145 | 8 |
| Midlothian | 30 | 1 | 50 | 3 | 150 | 8 |
| Moray | 15 | 1 | 60 | 3 | 75 | 4 |
| North Ayrshire | 45 | 1 | 60 | 2 | 255 | 8 |
| North Lanarkshire | 60 | 1 | 135 | 2 | 410 | 6 |
| Orkney Isles | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 15 | 4 |
| Perth and Kinross | 15 | 0 | 65 | 2 | 85 | 3 |
| Renfrewshire | 100 | 3 | 105 | 3 | 310 | 8 |
| Scottish Borders | 25 | 1 | 80 | 3 | 95 | 4 |
| Shetland | 10 | 2 | 15 | 2 | 10 | 2 |
| South Ayrshire | 25 | 1 | 55 | 2 | 110 | 5 |
| South Lanarkshire | 90 | 1 | 80 | 1 | 275 | 4 |
| Stirling | 20 | 1 | 55 | 3 | 85 | 5 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 55 | 3 | 70 | 3 | 150 | 7 |
| West Lothian | 35 | 1 | 135 | 3 | 270 | 7 |
| Scotland | 1,550 | 1 | 3,288 | 3 | 6,549 | 6 |
Notes:
1. Table excludes children who are on a planned series of short-termplacements.
2. Table includes rounded estimates for local authorities not able toprovide information.
3. Some totals do not exactly equal the sum of their component parts dueto the effects of rounding.
4. Figures given to the nearest five to preserve confidentiality.
5. Aberdeen City was unable to split up the short-term placements. Thishas been estimated based on Scotland figures.
6. Children aged 0-17 (source: General Register Office (Scotland) - 2002 mid-yearestimates).
7. Other community placements include children looked after at home withparents, with friends/relatives, with prospective adopters and in othercommunity placements.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 24 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average time is for a child to remain on the child protection register.
Answer
Child protection statisticswere published on 31 October 2003, in
Children’s Social Work Statistics 2002-03.Table 25 shows the length of time that children spent on child protectionregisters. These figures are available on the Scottish Executive website at
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00287-00.asp.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 24 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the level of funding this financial year is for social work services in the area of (a) community care, (b) children and families, (c) criminal justice and (d) residential care, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
Local authority social workexpenditure by category can be found in pages 21 to 23 of the CIPFA RatingReview Estimates of Income and Expenditure 2003-04, which can be found in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 29256).
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 24 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the staffing ratio is within young people's residential units, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
Statistics on staff ratioswith children’s residential units were published on 31 October 2003, in
Children’sSocial Work Statistics 2002-03 (Table 19). These figures are available onthe Scottish Executive website at
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00287-00.asp.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 24 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average caseload is of social workers in children and families teams.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 24 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many children are currently placed on the child protection register, expressed also as a percentage of child population, and under which category they are registered.
Answer
Child protection statisticswere published on 31 October 2003, in
Children’s Social Work Statistics 2002-03.Table 28 shows the number of children on child protection registers at 31 March 2003, andthe rate per thousand children aged 0-15. Table 25 shows the category underwhich they were registered. These figures are available on the Scottish Executive website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/bulletins/00287-00.asp.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Euan Robson on 24 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much each local authority education department has allocated this year for joint funding of residential school placements and whether Glasgow City Council has exceeded its allocation for this financial year.
Answer
We do not separatelyidentify provision for residential school placements, which is part of the oneof the formulas that works out each authority’s single, unhypothecated revenuegrant figure. It is for each council to allocate its resources to meet localneeds and circumstances.
- Asked by: Tommy Sheridan, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Socialist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 07 November 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 21 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what its definition is of a “short-term prisoner” and how many prisoners have been categorised as such in each of the last three years, broken down by prison.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron,Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is asfollows.
A short-term prisoner isdefined in section 27(1) of the Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland)Act 1993 (as amended) as a person who is serving a sentence of imprisonment fora term of less than four years. Information about short-term prisonerreceptions, excluding fine defaulters, is provided in the following table
Short Term Prisoner Receptionsby Establishment, 2000-021
| Penal Establishment | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 |
| Barlinnie | 3,332 | 3,521 | 3,961 |
| Aberdeen | 569 | 655 | 626 |
| Castle Huntly | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Cornton Vale | 450 | 559 | 522 |
| Dumfries | 321 | 386 | 417 |
| Edinburgh | 1,774 | 1,837 | 1,934 |
| Glenochil Prison | 31 | 30 | 34 |
| Glenochil Young Offenders Institution | 127 | 101 | 69 |
| Greenock | 871 | 986 | 922 |
| Inverness | 464 | 475 | 518 |
| Longriggend2 | 11 | | |
| Low Moss | 256 | 240 | 249 |
| Noranside | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perth | 724 | 826 | 1,059 |
| Peterhead | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Polmont | 447 | 446 | 366 |
| Shotts | 36 | 25 | 18 |
| Kilmarnock | 1,142 | 1,218 | 1,097 |
| Total | 10,560 | 11,308 | 11,798 |
Notes:
1. These figures are thenumbers of warrants received rather than people i.e. one person may have morethan one warrant.
2. HM Remand InstitutionLongriggend was closed in April 2000.
