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To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a detailed explanation of the help available under the scheme of assistance for housing purposes in respect of advice and assistance, practical help, loans and equity access products and grants.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 January 2000
Such applicants will, however, have to accept there can be no guarantee of any sort on their eligibility for such assistance until the new Assisted Area map is finally agreed.
The petitioner was asking for income support to be used as one of the criteria for assistance, but the Executive has chosen a different set of arrangements to try to help those on low incomes to pay water and sewerage charges.
I am happy to say that a new publicity and information programme is on-going, and that we have placed requirements on local authorities to identify carers and to ensure that carers are supplied with all the necessary information about their rights and about the services that they can access.
The convention refers to the role of parents and families directly and charges Government with protecting families and assisting them to meet their essential role as the nurturers of their children.
At the moment, we are costing those programmes, which is not to say that those are budgets or that the merged company is committed to going ahead with the programmes.