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The Public Order Act 2023, which applies to England and Wales, has been in the news as a controversial piece of legislation for creating new criminal offences for protesting—for example, locking on to things.
For non-care-experienced children and young people in Scotland, the average age for leaving home is around 26 and rising. For care-experienced children and young people, it is nearly 10 years younger—the average age is 15.
The health board has struggled to get its facts straight over the weekend, the Evening Times has reported that concerns had been known about for two years and two people are dead, yet we do not know what our health secretaries have been doing. This is the latest in a catalogue of public health concerns not just at the Queen Elizabeth university hospital but...
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Date answered:
15 October 2024
(Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios - April 2023 to March 2024 - Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios - Publications - Public Health Scotland).These statistics are updated on a quarterly basis and reflect the HSMR for the latest 12-month reporting period, whilst crude mortality data is presented by quarter and month to show trends.
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Date answered:
29 September 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, according to the latest data, how many children (a) in Aberdeen and (b) throughout Scotland are in receipt of 1,140 hours of funded early learning and childcare.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 August 2023
Those figures are on a national level and not at a constituency geography. The latest published forecasts estimated spending forecast for Carer’s Allowance Supplement for 2023-24 is £49 million with an estimated 91,000 people receiving payments.
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Date answered:
23 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, according to the latest data, (a) how many and (b) what percentage of children are currently accessing (i) 600 and (ii) 1,140 hours of funded Early Learning and Childcare (ELC), broken down by local authority area.