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Under section 87 (1A) of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 a local authority may charge for certain adult non-residential and domiciliary services it provides.
NHS Board 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 Grampian £212,000 £699,000 £699,000 £715,077 Tayside £168,000 £556,000 £556,000 £568,788 Some further detailed information may be available in the individual ADATs Corpora...
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Date answered:
26 February 2008
From the applications still in progress it was expected that 319 will be installed in March, 704 in May and 70 in June. For 2007-08 the average time a householder has waited between applications and the month in which their system was installed has been six months, around the same as it has been since 2004-05 and lower than the eight month average waiting ...
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Date answered:
25 February 2008
If boards encounter temporary difficulties in doing so, they may arrange treatment in another board area to ensure patients continue to receive swift access to care.
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Date answered:
29 January 2008
If a local authority proposes to refuse an application for registrationor remove a registered person from the register then it can provide further adviceto the applicant or registered person on actions they may be able to take to resolvethe situation including the appointment of an agent to manage the property.Local authorities also have aduty to provide ad...
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Date answered:
28 January 2008
The £93 million allocated fordevelopment of the third sector in the spending review recognises the existing contributionof third sector organisations, including housing co-operatives, and the potentialfor their entrepreneurial dynamism to contribute to transformational change acrossthe Scottish Government’s five strategic objectives.The new Scottish Investment Fundis expected to come into operation later this year and applications will be invitedfrom properly constituted third sector organisations – organisations which are constitutedfor social purpose and principally non-profit distributing.As registered sociallandlords, housing co-operatives are eligible to apply for Wider Role funding tohelp support regeneration activity they may...
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Date answered:
28 January 2008
As part of that process we are consideringwhat help communities may need to engage with renewables developments.We are also considering feedbackfrom a seminar I hosted in November last year which brought together a range ofstakeholders to discuss the potential community benefits from wind farm developments.In addition, the emerging conclusionsof the Forum f...
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Date answered:
17 January 2008
This will give such communities the opportunity to access funding under thenew Scotland Rural Development Programme 2007-13 (SRDP), once the programme hasbeen approved formally by the European Commission. Proposals may be submitted eitherto the relevant Regional Proposal Assessment Committee with a view to securing aRural Development Contract (Axis 3),or el...
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Date answered:
14 January 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will review the information provided to local authorities and other bodies that provide concessionary travel cards to ensure that people with learning disabilities who are entitled to the cards receive them and that they are fully aware of the 15 qualifying criteria under which someone may be eligible. Guidance note...