Chamber and committees

The £25 million Third Sector Resilience Fund is part of the £350 million Communities Fund.

As of 30 June 2020:

• Investment has helped save organisations that have a collective annual turnover of c£0.5bn.
• Close to 14,000 jobs have been saved.
• There were 3253 applications with a cumulative value of over £81.6m.
• Grants totalling £21.4m have been made to over 1261 organisations.
• The fund has now committed 100% of its original value.

Details of the awards made under the Third Sector Resilience fund can be found at https://www.firstport.org.uk/news/awards-made-by-the-third-sector-resilience-fund/  The Scottish Government has published a new collection of digital maps showing where funding has been given to support communities across Scotland affected by coronavirus (COVID-19). The online dashboard enables users to view financial support by local authority across four main funds. Full details can be accessed via https://www.gov.scot/policies/poverty-and-social-justice/funding/ 

I refer the member to the answer to question number S5W-29356 on 10 July 2020. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx .

The Scottish Government does not hold the information requested.

The Scottish Charity Register is maintained by the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) and charities registered are required to submit their accounts to OSCR. OSCR operates independently of the Scottish Government and Scottish Ministers are not accountable for OSCR’s operations. The Member is invited to refer the question to OSCR.

Young people with mild to moderate learning disabilities and mental health problems are able to access the three regional adolescent Inpatient Units (IPU).This group was considered when the regional network of adolescent IPUs was expanded to 48 beds for Scotland.

Scottish Government officials are currently working to identify, a project lead and Lead Clinician to establish a Steering Group and develop the specification and standards for a National Leading Disability CAMHS Clinical Network. Subject to progress and the recommendations of the Steering Group, an application to the NHS National Specialist Services Committee for National MCN designation will follow.

If a young person requires admission to a learning disability CAMHS inpatient unit, NHS National Services Scotland commission cross border admissions to a suitable facility within NHS England. If an admission is not made, the NHS board providing care would provide alternative care. This could include providing an intensive community care option, or by admission to a non-specialist unit with additional input from specialist clinicians, such as to a regional adolescent IPU with input from clinicians with Learning Disability CAMHS expertise.

We do not calculate a separate R value for care homes.

Scottish Government is informed of the findings of independent academic researchers such as those of the SPI M sub group who are developing methods for estimating transmission in care homes. This is not focused on using R but instead on developing care home appropriate measures of covid infections within care homes. These care home appropriate methods when completed will provide an understanding of transmission in care homes in Scotland. The Scottish Government is carefully considering a range of Covid statistics on care homes. This includes data produced daily by Scottish Government on the number of number of care homes notifying cases of COVID-19, and the number of suspected cases of COVID-19 in care homes.

Scottish Government officials have also been working with representatives of the Care Inspectorate, Scottish Social Services Council, Scottish Care and care home providers to produce a number of resources which will support care homes to identify factors that may impact on the health, safety and wellbeing of residents as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest details on the resources being made available can be found at:

https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-clinical-and-practice-guidance
-for-adult-care-homes/ .

This is a matter for individual Health Boards and the information requested is not held centrally .

We are now in phase two of the route map out of the coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown. Health Boards are remobilising services in line with the ‘Remobilise, Recover and Re-design Framework’ that we published on 31 May. We have outlined this should start with the expansion of non-cancer urgent inpatient and outpatient services and we expect this to include the gradual re-introduction of some chronic disease management from 6 July that could include pain services.

How different specialties categorise and prioritise the urgency of cases will be informed by guidance from professional bodies and local circumstances such as the availability of relevant facilities and other specialists to assist with complex procedures.

I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-30075 on 8 July 2020. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx '.