Question reference: S6W-07677
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 31 March 2022
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Current status: Answered by Keith Brown on 19 April 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many men were treated through the Caledonia System in 2021, and how many have been treated since it began.
Answer
In the period from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021, 379 men were required to attend the Caledonian System as part of a Community Payback Order (CPO). In total, 1100 men were provided with the opportunity to access the programme in this period.
Prior to 2016 uptake of the Men's Programme is difficult to quantify precisely, because of limitations in the monitoring data. However, from the data available, the Caledonian System Evaluation in 2016 found that at least 941 men had started the Men’s Programme and 598 women had taken up the offer of support from the Women’s Service since September 2010.
Since the introduction of a new dataset from 1 May 2018, 1386 men have been required to attend the Caledonian System as part of a CPO. During this same period, 1934 women were also contacted, and offered the opportunity to contribute to the assessment process and have been offered safety planning.