Chamber and committees

The “Other (known)” category is used by local authorities where the outcome is known but does not fit into any of the other outcome categories listed in the following table. The Scottish Government does not collect any further information regarding what these outcomes are.

The Scottish Government does not hold information on supplies held by NHS Boards in their stores. It is for NHS Boards to manage supplies and to ensure that they support the delivery of quality health care.

Sanitary facilities at NHS sites should address the needs of occupants and visitors, both in terms of availability and accessibility.

NHS Scotland has an increasing number of adult changing facilities and facilities to empty or change medical appliances, such as stomas, across facilities in Scotland. Changing Places Toilets (CPTs) are provided for public use in a growing number of NHS recent and upcoming investments, including Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary; Wishart Health & Community Centre; Stirling Care Village, Orkney Hospital, Skye Hospital, Greenock Health Centre. In many of the older facilities, including Queen Margaret Hospital and Forth Valley, existing toilet facilities have been increasingly upgraded and/ or simply registered (e.g. with www.changingplaces.org) to make them more publicly accessible.

In 2017, the NHSScotland facilities guidance for Sanitary Spaces (HBN 00-02) was updated to include a presumption of a CPT provision within the main public area for all new investments, both refurbishment or new build; unless proven by Equality Impact Assessment as not required, e.g. due to immediate proximity of an CPT.

The practice of company employment or company sponsoring of specialist stoma nurses within NHS Scotland ceased in 2006. The nurses' transfer into direct NHS employment was one of the outcomes from a Scottish Executive review of the supply of stoma appliances in the community, which were circulated to NHS Scotland through a Health Department letter, HDL (2006) 15. A link to that letter is as follows:

https://www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/mels/hd2006_15.pdf

The rationale for the decision was to improve governance and reduce the risk of conflict of interest for stoma care nurses within Scotland, and that remains the position of the Scottish Government.

I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-23499 on 6 June 2019. 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 .

The Scottish Government is developing a monitoring and evaluation framework to monitor the impact of the Young Carer Grant on the quality of life of young carers. On-going stakeholder engagement will provide the Scottish Government with further opportunities to refine our approach in monitoring the impact of the Young Carer Grant.

We are not considering delivering the Young Carer Grant in a non-monetary form. If this were introduced in the future, it would be in accordance with the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 which requires any non-cash benefits to be paid only with the consent of the client.

The Scottish Government has not made any assessment of the option to deliver the Young Carer Grant in a form other than money as it is being delivered as an annual grant of £300.

The information requested is not held centrally.

At the meeting on 7 March, the Homelessness Prevention and Strategy Group (HPSG) agreed pathways should be developed in sequence to allow work to be focused, take advantage of learning opportunities and to ensure experts in homelessness service delivery across Scotland could engage effectively with the work as a whole. The work is starting with groups who are most straightforwardly identifiable and where there is a clear opportunity to make progress.

The A Way Home Scotland Coalition, who are members of HPSG, are focused on developing and implementing work around youth homelessness in general. The HPSG has deputed the Coalition to develop the care leavers pathway, and Coalition members CELCIS have convened a working group to take this forward. The first meeting took place on 20 May, setting out the groundwork for this activity. The work is expected to proceed at pace over the summer.

Scoping work has been carried out on further pathways in relation to people experiencing domestic abuse and people with experience of the armed forces.