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6 November 2024
Chamber_Minutes_20241106
Tackling Sibling Sexual Abuse in Scotland: The Parliament debated S6M- 12918 in the name of Fulton MacGregor—That the Parliament commends the recent paper, Tackling Sibling Sexual Abuse in Scotland, published by the Cross Party Group on Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse; notes with concern the lack of Scotland-specific data regarding sibling sexual abuse (SSA); understands that SSA is the most common form of intra-familial child sexual abuse; acknowledges research that suggests that it is estimated that at least twice as many children are sexually abused by a child sibling than by a parent; recognises that many survivors who talk of their experiences of rape or sexual assault perpetrated by a sibling find that their abuse can be met by disbelief or minimisation by adults and professionals as “sexual experimentation” or “natural curiosity”; understands that SSA is less likely to be disclosed than other forms of sexual abuse, due to shame, fears of punishment or blame, or not being believed; further understands that the consequences of SSA may include post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, substance and alcohol misuse, eating disorders and relationship difficulties throughout life; believes that there is credible evidence that SSA often goes unrecognised or is minimised by professionals, which it considers is adverse to the needs of survivors and their families; acknowledges what it considers the complex issue of SSA whereby perpetrators are often underage themselves and may be in need of additional support; notes the support for any measures to highlight the prevalence of sibling sexual abuse, its impact and what parents can do if they are concerned about sexual behaviour between siblings; further notes the belief that it is valuable to launch a reference group bringing together key agencies and those with lived experience to consolidate learning, identify best...
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26 September 2024
GWSFASubmissionHousingEmergency
It has so far brought no tangible action, other than to restore 20% of the calamitous £200m cut made to the 2024-25 Affordable Housing Supply Programme: a response we consider to have been, at best, feeble. 2 Factors influencing increased demand Each local authority responding to the Committee will highlight its own particular pressures, but from a broader ...
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26 September 2024
Glasgow and West of Scotland Forum of Housing Associations
It has so far brought no tangible action, other than to restore 20% of the calamitous £200m cut made to the 2024-25 Affordable Housing Supply Programme: a response we consider to have been, at best, feeble. 2 Factors influencing increased demand Each local authority responding to the Committee will highlight its own particular pressures, but from a broader ...
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25 September 2024
CPG Minutes 14th May 2024
The current Scottish Water annual report (SWAnnualReport2023.pdf) is worth reading. RYA Scotland is considering how best to take this forward, and we hope to talk to Scottish Water.
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5 September 2024
CIWM ScotlandEnvironmental Protection Singleuse Vapes Scotland Regulations 20241 September 2024
The financial mechanism associated with the WEEE Regulations to support recycling and separation of these items to aid recovery is not visible or accessible to the waste industry or collection bodies such as Local Authorities. To the best of 1 Office of National Statistics 2 Material Focus: https://www.materialfocus.org.uk A Company Incorporated by Royal Ch...
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29 August 2024
UKVIA_response to Vapes SSI letter 23 August 2024_WEB
Thank you again for the opportunity to contribute our views on this important regulation. Best wishes, John Dunne Director-General UK Vaping Industry Association 1.
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14 May 2024
SPBill48ENS062024accessible
Section 3(2) sets out that treatment may not be refused to a patient on any matter other than an assessment by a relevant health professional of the best interests of the patient (for procedure see sections 2(3) and 2(4)).
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14 May 2024
SPBill48S062024
SP Bill 48 Session 6 (2024) 2 Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill 2 Procedure for determining treatment (1) In making a treatment determination, a relevant health professional must ensure that— (a) they explain to the patient each of the treatment options listed in section 1(5) and the suitability of each to the patient’s needs, 5 (b) the patient is allowed and encouraged to participate as fully as possible in the treatment determination including by being able to give feedback, provide comments and raise concerns, (c) the patient is provided with such information and support as is necessary to enable them to participate in accordance with paragraph (b) and in relation to any related 10 processes, 1 (d) the treatment determination is made following a meeting in person between the relevant health professional and the patient, (e) the treatment determination takes into account the patient’s needs, and (f) the treatment determination is made with regard to the importance of providing 15 the optimum benefit to the patient’s health and wellbeing. (2) The patient may request one or more of the treatments listed in section 1(5) and the relevant health professional must consider the appropriateness of any such treatment requested by the patient in making the treatment determination. (3) Where the relevant health professional determines either that no treatment is appropriate 20 or that a treatment requested by the patient is not appropriate for the patient— (a) the relevant health professional must provide the patient with a written statement of reasons for that decision in a form prescribed by the Scottish Ministers in a code of practice under section 6, and (b) the patient has the right to consult another relevant health professional who must 25 make their own treatment determination following the procedure set out in subsection (1). (4) A written statement of reasons under subsection (3)(a) must include an explanation of— (a) the patient’s right to consult a second relevant health professional as provided by subsection (3)(b), and 30 (b) the procedure for consulting a second relevant health professional. (5) A relevant health professional consulted by a patient under subsection (3)(b) must make a treatment determination in accordance with this section save that subsections (3)(b) and (4) do not apply to that treatment determination. 3 Provision of treatment 35 (1) The treatment described in section 1(3) is to be made available to the patient as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event no later than 3 weeks after the treatment determination is made. (2) A treatment described in section 1(3) may not be refused to a patient on the basis of any matter, other than an assessment by a relevant health professional of the best...
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1 May 2024
Victims and Prisoners Bill
We finally urge the Health Committee to look at all the specific issues and inclusions outlined above to aid the Scottish Parliament in passing the Legislative Consent Motion (LCM) for the relevant sections of the V&P Bill while opposing those which are not in the best interests of Scottish citizens or devolution.
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196570.
Last updated:
18 April 2024
DecisionMaking_PermanentSecretaryToConvener_25Mar24
I look forward to updating the Committee in May on these and other matters. Best wishes, JP Marks Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Government
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64696.
