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Date answered:
3 October 2006
S2W-28557
VDS, togetherwith a number of volunteer centres, takes forward a range of training and providestargeted resources to promote best practice across volunteer engaging agencies,including the promotion of volunteering opportunities to harder to reach groups.In addition, the Scottish Executive funds MV Awards (previously Millennium VolunteerAwards) which, throug...
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Date answered:
28 March 2006
S2W-24398
Arrangements have not yet begun inScotland to phase out the SHO grade. We are considering how best to assimilateboth current training posts and, subject to open competition, the junior doctorswho occupy them into the new MMC programmes.We recognise the concerns ofcurrent SHOs about their future employment options under MMC.
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15 December 2005
S2W-21423
As part of their work, the group has examined best practice in integrated capacity planning between health boards and local authorities to ensure, among other things, effective support for people in their own homes and, where needed, the provision of sheltered and very sheltered housing.In developing their local housing strategies (LHS) local authorities sh...
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8 December 2005
S2W-21505
The matter of the boundaries of the successor boards has been subject to formal public consultation which was launched on 8 August and ran until 11 November.I have carefully considered all representations and the results of the consultation and concluded that the healthcare interests of patients and local people would be best served by adopting option one; ...
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17 November 2005
S2W-20474
My officials have met with Scotland’s local authorities to gauge the extent of the problems posed by nesting seagulls in urban areas, and have discussed both practical solutions they can use and whether additional legal powers are required to allow new measures to be introduced.This research work is intended to provide a basis for new guidance to local authorities on best practice measures and I expect the findings to be published early in 2006.
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Date answered:
28 September 2005
S2W-19350
To ask the Scottish Executive whether NHS 24 uses the independent medical knowledge and expertise of patient support groups to ensure that it has the best possible information in order to respond to enquiries to its telephone helpline service.
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Date answered:
21 September 2005
S2W-18766
We have supported a national training and consultancy resource to disseminate best practice, and worked with partners to agree guidance for restorative police warnings and the operation of restorative justice in the children’s hearings system.
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Date answered:
24 January 2005
S2W-13398
Funding allocations for ASH Scotland in each year since 1999 are as follows:- Funding Allocation 1999-2000 £ 2000-01 £ 2001-02 £ 2002-03 £ 2003-04 £ 2004-05 £ 16b Core Funding 117,000 120,400 120,400 170,500 179,000 227,500 Tobacco Inequalities Project 71,000 97,500 70,000 41,000 72,000 73,000 ASH Information Service 57,000 56,000 56,000 Admin costs for lottery funded project 11,000 10,000 Capital Funding 6,500 1,000 35,000 17,500 Tobacco Control Alliance Co‑ordinator 15,000 Website Development 40,700 Evaluation Resource Pack 55,000 In addition the Partnership Action on Tobacco and Health was established by the Scottish Executive in 2002 to establish national training standards for smoking cessation services; identify best...
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Date answered:
26 October 2004
S2W-10983
Local authorities can, however, seek consent to disposals at less than best consideration from Scottish ministers including disposals to provide land for affordable housing.We see potential for greater use of surplus public land for affordable housing and are keen to encourage public bodies to release such land for this purpose.
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Date answered:
26 July 2004
S2W-09446
This identified that participation rates at FE level in Lanarkshire are 24% below the national average and around 50% below the best performing areas. SFEFC has provided research funding to colleges in the area to examine why participation in Lanarkshire is at such levels, and is currently considering a proposal from the colleges for a project to enhance pa...
