Chamber and committees

I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:

Violence Prevention Programme and CARE are intensive programmes which an individual prisoner will complete in around 200 hours and 62.5 hours. They are delivered to groups of prisoners after careful selection of participants.

The number of prisoners who completed the programmes are as follows:

Establishment	Violence Prevention	CARE
Barlinnie		25
Edinburgh	18
Glenochil	9	8
Perth	10	16
Polmont	9	24
Shotts	19	38
Peterhead		6
Kilmarnock		24

 

Controlling Anger Regulating Emotions (CARE) is a replacement programme for the original Anger Management Programme.

These programmes are part of a suite of 20 prisoner programmes and approved activities, which in 2009-10 resulted in a total of 1,377 completions.

I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:

Violence Prevention Programme and CARE are intensive programmes which an individual prisoner will complete in around 200 hours and 62.5 hours. They are delivered to groups of prisoners after careful selection of participants.

The number of Prisoners who completed the programmes are as follows:

Establishment	Violence Prevention	CARE
Barlinnie		15
Edinburgh	8
Glenochil	10	18
Perth		25
Peterhead	2	16
Polmont	10	22
Shotts	23	20
Addiewell		7
Kilmarnock		20

 

Controlling Anger Regulating Emotions (CARE) is a replacement programme for the original Anger Management Programme.

These programmes are part of a suite of 20 prisoner programmes and approved activities, which in 2009-10 resulted in a total of 1377 completions.

I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:

This information is not available regarding the proportion of all prisoners with drug/alcohol problems. Prisoners do take the opportunity to disclose problems to the prison health services and have access to addiction services to address their needs. Prisoners serving over 31 days in custody, identified with a substance misuse problem, are offered a comprehensive substance misuse assessment.

The following table shows the number of assessments completed against the proportion of referrals made to the Enhanced Addiction Casework Service (EACS); and the number of interventions delivered in 2009-10:

Prison	Prisoners				Total Assessed	No Interventions Delivered
	No Referred to EACS	% Assessed for Drug Misuse	% Assessed for Alcohol Misuse	% Assessed for Drugs & Alcohol Misuse
Aberdeen	306	47.06% (144)	15.03% (46)	2.61% (8)	64.71% (198)	934
Barlinnie	731	40.63% (297)	29.69% (217)	8.62% (63)	78.93% (577)	2,385
Cornton Vale	515	74.37% (383)	17.67% (91)	1.75% (9)	93.79% (483)	3,391
Dumfries	216	37.04% (80)	32.87% (71)	10.65% (23)	80.56% (174)	1,248
Edinburgh	748	52.01% (389)	15.24% (114)	3.48% (26)	70.72% (529)	3,118
Glenochil	334	39.82% (133)	25.75% (86)	4.49% (15)	70.06% (234)	2,410
Greenock	379	41.95% (159)	22.16% (84)	5.28% (20)	69.39% (263)	2,996
Inverness	210	39.05 (82)	36.19% (76)	7.14% (15)	82.38% (173)	900

 

Prison	Prisoners				Total Assessed	Number of Interventions Delivered
	No Referred to EACS	% Assessed for Drug Misuse	% Assessed for Alcohol Misuse	% Assessed for Drugs & Alcohol Misuse
Open Estate	280	31.79% (89)	27.86% (78)	0.36% (1)	60% (168)	3,148
Perth	597	47.57% (284)	18.09% (108)	3.69% (22)	69.35% (414)	2,477
Peterhead	100	18% (18)	28% (28)	0	46% (46)	662
Polmont	478	34.73% (166)	57.11% (273)	4.60% (22)	96.44% (461)	3,458
Shotts	126	65.08% (82)	14.29% (18)	0.79% (1)	80.16% (101)	1,515
Total	5,020	45.94% (2306)	25.70% (1290)	4.48% (225)	76.12% (3821)	28,642

 

The number of interventions does not correspond with the number who were assessed as a prisoner can attend more than one intervention, based on their assessed need as detailed within their community integration plan (CIP).

It should be noted that data relating to assessments carried out for both drugs and alcohol only began being collated in April 2010.

Every prisoner who is admitted to custody goes through an initial health screening by a nurse. Prisoners are all asked about historical and current substance misuse to ascertain immediate clinical need.

I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:

The suite of Sex Offender Treatment Programmes (SOTPs) is delivered in four establishments “ HMP Barlinnie, HMP Edinburgh, HMP Peterhead and HMYOI Polmont.

SOTP is delivered to prisoners based on an assessment of their risk and needs; availability of programme places and a willingness to participate. Not all prisoners will complete a programme over a calendar year and some may drop out. Therefore, it would not be appropriate to express numbers as a proportion of the total prison population. However, the following table shows the number of prisoners starting the programme and the number completing the programme in 2010:

	Number of Prisoners Starting Programme in 2010	Number of Prisoners Completing Programme in 2010
HMP Barlinnie	16	4
HMP Edinburgh	24	16
HMP Peterhead	-	35
HMYOI Polmont	9	4

 

I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:

The following table illustrates the number of banned items seized from prisoners entering Scottish Prisons in 2010, broken down by item and establishment.

	Drugs	Mobile Telephones	SIM Cards	Weapons	Alcohol	Drug Paraphernalia
Aberdeen	1	0	0	0	0	0
Addiewell	9	3	5	0	0	0
Barlinnie	0	2	1	2	0	0
Cornton Vale	11	0	0	1	0	2
Dumfries	1	0	0	0	0	2
Edinburgh	2	4	0	2	0	0
Glenochil	0	2	0	0	0	0
Greenock	3	1	0	0	0	0
Inverness	1	0	0	0	0	0
Kilmarnock	15	13	5	3	0	0
Open Estate	1	4	1	0	0	0
Perth	2	5	5	1	0	0
Peterhead	0	0	0	0	0	0
Polmont	3	2	1	0	0	0
Shotts	1	2	0	1	1	0
Totals	50	38	18	10	1	4

 

The table below illustrates the number of banned items seized from visitors entering Scottish Prisons in 2010, broken down by item and establishment.

	Drugs	Mobile Telephones	SIM Cards	Weapons	Alcohol
Aberdeen	4	3	0	0	0
Addiewell	12	1	9	0	0
Barlinnie	8	0	0	0	0
Cornton Vale	7	1	0	0	0
Dumfries	1	1	0	1	0
Edinburgh	15	0	0	0	0
Glenochil	3	3	0	0	0
Greenock	10	1	0	1	0
Inverness	0	0	0	0	0
Kilmarnock	25	1	1	0	0
Open Estate	0	0	0	0	0
Perth	4	1	1	0	0
Peterhead	0	0	0	0	0
Polmont	3	0	0	9	1
Shotts	3	0	0	0	0
Totals	95	12	11	11	1

 

Knife crime has a substantial impact on policing, both in terms of the crime prevention work they do as well as the enforcement aspect of policing. Our police forces work extremely hard in often dangerous situations to prevent crime and keep our communities safe.

We have put 1,000 extra police officers on our streets, record investment of £1.4 million into the National Violence reduction Unit, record investment of £1.6 million into tackling gang violence and record investment of £30 million into diversionary activities. We announced on Friday 25 February 2011 a doubling of the funding for No Knives, Better Lives for 2011-12.

Recorded crimes of breach of a sex offender order, by police force area, 2008-09 and 2009-10,

Police force area	2008-09	2009-10
Central	6	23
Dumfries and Galloway	8	3
Fife	8	8
Grampian	25	28
Lothian and Borders	18	18
Northern	0	0
Strathclyde	4	20
Tayside	10	10
Scotland	79	110

 

The Scottish Government has provided funding over the period in question to a wide range of organisations to deliver projects to tackle sectarianism and all forms of religious intolerance across all aspects of Scottish society, including in schools. The total amounts provided are as follows:

Financial Year	Total Funding Provided
2007-08	£325,250
2008-09	£281,000
2009-10	£415,600

 

However, the specific amounts for work in schools cannot be identified as the work of these organisations cut across many areas.

Work on anti-sectarianism programmes in schools over the three years include development of an online educational resource; delivery of workshops in schools to nearly 3,000 pupils who have now gone on to deliver anti-sectarian work within their school curricula; roll out of a programme of educational workshops utilising the role model status of footballers to educate young people to tackle Islamophobia, and specific work in local schools with P6 and P7 pupils to address sectarianism.

The Scottish Government also provides core funding to Learning Teaching Scotland which is the national body responsible for reviewing the curriculum, developing assessment to support learning and providing national guidance and advice to the education system on the use of Information Communication Technology to support learning and teaching in Scottish schools. Anti-sectarianism may arise as part of Religious and Moral Education or Social Studies. However, the curriculum in Scotland is not set in statute. It is for local authorities and schools themselves to decide on the delivery of particular subjects within schools and the resources to be used to address their local needs.

The information requested is as follows.

 

In addition to the numerous anti-sectarian events which I and other Scottish Government ministers have attended, the First Minister hosted a reception to celebrate the achievement of those working to tackle sectarianism at Edinburgh castle on 19 June 2007; attended an anti-sectarian event at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh on 20 February 2008 to mark the visit of government ministers from Northern Ireland, and participated in the Show Racism/Bigotry the Red Card Scottish Party Leaders event at Easter Road Stadium in Edinburgh on 20 January 2011.

In addition the First Minister regularly meets with church leaders, through forums like Action for Churches Together in Scotland, helping to ensure real progress in joint working by Scotland''s churches, and solidarity in tackling sectarianism. The First Minister hosted a reception on 3 November 2010 to mark the 450th anniversary of the Reformation, and participated in the visit of His Holiness pope Benedict XVI. Both of these had a strong inter-faith dimension which clearly illustrated how different beliefs can comfortably live together side by side.

The information relating to the 2003-07 parliamentary session is not held centrally and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.