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Date answered:
21 February 2006
S2W-22852
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-21186 by Robert Brown on 27 January 2006, what the wider criteria referred to are for the Children, Young People and Families Unified Voluntary Sector Fund. The current criteria are: to deliver better outcomes for vulnerable and deprived children and young people;to protect children – through effective early intervention with children and families and/or support when they need protection;to improve the health, education and care of children and young people who are affected by disability and/or who have special educational needs/additional support needs;to assist in meeting the health needs of children and young people by engaging in health initiatives complementary to those required by statute;to deliver better outcomes for children, young people and families from ethnic minorities;to promote the rights and reflect the views of all children and young people – especially those who are vulnerable or deprived;to enhance the physical, mental and emotional development and well-being of all children and young people by promoting healthier, more positive lifestyles through social inclusion, lifelong learning and active citizenship, andto provide mediation and counselling services for families/couples experiencing stress or in transition.
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Date answered:
23 January 2006
S2W-22131
In addition, schools were using a range of different strategies to promote healthy eating, such as involving pupils in designing their own promotional material.In addition to this action at school level, NHS Scotland and the Food Standards Agency run a number of national campaigns to highlight the benefits of healthy eating. In particular, the Executive funds the healthyliving campaign which includes mass media advertising, brand marketing and PR, the healthyliving helpline, website development, support for NHS and other public sector providers and monitoring and evaluation of the campaign.
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Date answered:
13 October 2005
S2W-19644
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-18938 by Malcolm Chisholm on 3 October 2005, how many developments have been completed, and how many approved, since the reintroduction of GRO grant funding and how many low-cost homes have been provided by these schemes, broken down into low-cost ...
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Date answered:
31 August 2005
S2W-18315
We expect to reduce mortality rates in the target population by 15%, potentially preventing over 150 lives being lost to bowel cancer per year.We have already made available £2 million of capital funding to finance the extension of the Dundee laboratory and the development of a new IT system in order to prepare for n...
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Date answered:
31 January 2005
S2W-13238
Similarly there was a 10% increase in 2003-04 in the number of Supervised Attendance Orders, which contain an element of community reparation, imposed by courts in dealing with fine defaulters.A new development for 2005-06 is commencement of two year Executive funded pilots of Community Reparation Orders to deal with...
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Date answered:
2 December 2004
S2W-12381
The Executive is looking to NHS Education for Scotland (NES) to continue to support the emergency care training programme for British Association for Immediate Care Scotland (BASICS) members when the Remote and Rural Areas Initiative (RARARI) funding comes to an end in March 2005.
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Date answered:
10 November 2004
S2W-11842
Common elements of this role are the distribution and collection of menus and meal trays to patients.The Scottish Executive has funded the development and delivery of an open learning programme on nutrition for 11,000 healthcare clinical support staff in NHSScotland.
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Date answered:
30 September 2004
S2W-10806
Enforcing compliance with discharge consents are operational matters for the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.Subject to planning approval, Scottish Water is developing plans for a £10.8 million project to build a new secondary level waste water treatment works and associated pipe works and storm storage capacity to cater for Largs.The Executive is funding several pilot projects on retrofitting of sustainable urban drainage, installation of ponds or wetlands on farms, co-digestion of slurry with sewage sludge to produce biogas and on farm-scale biogas or composting to help identify how diffuse pollution might be further reduced.
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Date answered:
9 September 2004
S2W-09983
To ask the Scottish Executive which cost pressures facing NHS Argyll and Clyde, not fully funded by the Executive, have originated from Executive policies.
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Date answered:
1 September 2003
S2W-01892
Theresearch is being done by the Scottish Development Centre for Mental Health.Work should be completed at the end of October 2003.The Chief Scientist Officewithin the Scottish Executive Health Department, is currently funding sevenresearch projects into the needs of people with learning disabilities at a costof £749...
