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Through the child protection reform programme, we have undertaken a pilot awareness raising media campaign in the north east of Scotland and are considering the evaluation from this.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it supports the use of Special Branch informants to obtain information on democratic political parties in Scotland. The use by the police, including Special Branches, of covert human intelligence sources is governed in Scotland by the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Scotland) Act 2000 (RIP(S)A) and Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA).
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
5 December 2005
Home Care Services, Scotland 2005 a Statistics Release published on 30 November 2005 notes the latest national statistics for home care services provided or purchased by local authorities in Scotland.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 November 2005
Information on vacancies in NHS Scotland is published on the Scottish Health Statistics website under Workforce Statistics, at www.isdscotland.org/workforce.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
1 November 2005
The new guidelines establishedin the revised Lisbon Strategy, which focus greater attention on productivity andemployment, align the Lisbon policy priorities closely with those that currently existin Scotland and the United Kingdom. The economic development prioritiesof the Executive are set out in the long-term economic strategy The Frameworkfor Economic Development in Scotland and the Executive’s Enterprise strategyA Smart, Successful Scotland (SSS).
The national forest estate, owned by Scottish ministers and managed by Forestry Commission Scotland, extends to 656,200 hectares (as recorded in Forest Facts & Figures, 2004, published on 30 September 2004).
The length of time it takes to fill each consultancy vacancy within the health service in Scotland varies from post to post.The average time taken to fill such a post is six months assuming that there is no recruitment from other areas of the United Kingdom or from overseas.