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Employmentopportunities for disabled people are provided under UK legislationthrough the job search and support offered by Jobcentre Plus and the New Deal forDisabled People.The Disability Discrimination Act1995 protects disabled people from unlawful discrimination; this protection wasextended on 1 October 2004 to additional employers and jobs across the United Kingdom.In Scotland, the Scottish Executive’s Healthy Working Lives and the National Programme for ImprovingMental Health and Well Being include the promotion of employment and job retention.
Scottish Executive funding has enabled councils and their partners to setup community warden schemes throughout Scotland which are now helping to deal with many of the problems faced by deprived neighbourhoods.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider providing funding to local authorities to run similar projects to the Debates Outreach Project being run in North Lanarkshire by the English-Speaking Union Scotland. The Scottish Executive is committed to providing more out of school hours opportunities across a wide range of activities including debat...
The Scottish Executive has established a Delivery Group to oversee the implementation of MMC in Scotland and medical Royal Colleges are represented on that committee.
The Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004 is expected to be commenced towards the end of this year, at which time the tribunal system will become operational.
Officials met with the companiesconcerned in January and February 2004 and were given reassurances that steps hadbeen taken to ensure that the number of disconnections would not continue to rise.In my recent meetings with fuelsupply companies, I have been reassured that companies are trying to keep the numberof disconnections to a minimum. Disconnections for debt in Scotland havefallen sharply over the last year.
Following a search of ourfiles, we have found a letter dated 24 October 2003from John McCormick, BBC Scotland Controller, to the First Minister.I have placed a copy in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 35515).
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 February 2005
Bodies which represent older and disabled people, such as the Scottish Older Peoples Consultative Forum and the Mobility and Access Committee for Scotland (MACS), will be included. S2W-14002
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 February 2005
This is however something which the National Sexual Health Advisory Committee could consider when it provides advice on a sexual health research programme for Scotland. S2W-14011
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 February 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to extend the availability and uptake of direct payments across Scotland. The Scottish Executive is committed to developing direct payments as a way of giving service users choice and control over the care services they receive.