- Asked by: Roz McCall, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 November 2024
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 27 November 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the progress towards implementing the key priority areas highlighted in its Stroke Improvement Plan 2023.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 27 November 2024
- Asked by: Roz McCall, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 November 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Natalie Don-Innes on 15 November 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-30466 by Natalie Don-Innes on 17 October 2024, whether it will provide a precise timetable for the introduction of the proposed The Promise Bill.
Answer
The Government’s future legislative programmes will be announced in the relevant Programme for Government in the normal way.
The Scottish Government is committed to keep The Promise by 2030 and has recently set out further detail on activity underway in our Promise Implementation Plan Update 2024: Keeping The Promise to our children, young people and families: progress update 2024 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot). This includes a continued commitment to introduce a Promise Bill by the end of this parliamentary session, dependent on wider pressures on the Parliamentary legislative calendar.
We are currently conducting a number of consultations which will inform the next steps on key areas and, where appropriate to inform The Promise Bill.
This includes the next stages of reform of the children’s hearing system; the future of foster care; the definition of care experience; and the support available to those moving on from care.
- Asked by: Roz McCall, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 November 2024
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 20 November 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the UK Government regarding the reported potential withdrawal of levelling up funding for the city of Dunfermline and any economic impact this may have.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 20 November 2024
- Asked by: Roz McCall, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 11 November 2024
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 12 November 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland's call for it to introduce "legal protection for children on the use of physical restraint and seclusion in all situations where children are in the care of the state".
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 12 November 2024
- Asked by: Roz McCall, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 31 October 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Neil Gray on 8 November 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how many patients are waiting to access occupational therapy services, and what the average waiting time has been in the last 12 months, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
Information on waiting times for occupational therapy for all conditions is not held centrally but can be provided by NHS Boards.
- Asked by: Roz McCall, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 October 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Natalie Don-Innes on 8 November 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-30466 by Natalie Don-Innes on 17 October 2024, whether it has identified any specific pressures on the parliamentary legislative calendar that will prevent the proposed The Promise Bill from being introduced during the current parliamentary session.
Answer
The Scottish Government is committed to introducing a Promise Bill in this Parliamentary term.
The Government’s future legislative programmes will be announced in the relevant Programme for Government in the normal way in due course.
We are currently conducting a number of consultations which will inform the next steps on key areas and, where appropriate to inform The Promise Bill.
This includes the next stages of reform of the children’s hearing system; the future of foster care; the definition of care experience; and the support available to those moving on from care.
- Asked by: Roz McCall, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 November 2024
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 13 November 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to encourage library usage in the Mid Scotland and Fife region.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 13 November 2024
- Asked by: Roz McCall, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 October 2024
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 7 November 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to end homelessness.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 7 November 2024
- Asked by: Roz McCall, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 03 October 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Natalie Don-Innes on 30 October 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how many people who died (a) by suicide, (b) prematurely from non-natural causes and (c) from alcohol-related causes in each year since 2016 were care-experienced.
Answer
Regulation 6 of The Looked After Children (Scotland) Regulations 2009 states that Scottish Ministers should be informed of the death of a child who is looked after. In addition, the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 inserted a statutory duty in the Children (Scotland) 1995 Act requiring local authorities to notify Scottish Ministers and the Care Inspectorate of the death of a care leaver in receipt of a Continuing Care or Aftercare service.
Data from the Care Inspectorate states the confirmed causes of death from 2016 to 15 October 2024 of any young person who was looked after or a care leaver receiving an Aftercare or Continuing Care service.
Year | Cause of death -Suicide | Cause of death – non natural causes | Cause of death - Alcohol related |
2016 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
2017 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
2018 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
2019 | 5 | 10 | 0 |
2020 | 7 | 10 | 0 |
2021 | 3 | 10 | 0 |
2022 | 6 | 4 | 0 |
2023 | 5 | 7 | 0 |
2024 (up to 15 October 24) | 6 | 1 | 0 |
There were no deaths that were solely reported as alcohol related. While some records indicated alcohol as a contributing factor, it was associated with a range of complex issues faced by the individual rather than being identified as the direct cause of death.
- Asked by: Roz McCall, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 October 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Neil Gray on 22 October 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made on the implementation of the strategy set out in the document, Rehabilitation and Recovery: A Once for Scotland Person-Centred Approach to Rehabilitation in a Post-COVID Era, since its publication in June 2022.
Answer
The Scottish Government has established a National Rehabilitation Network, comprised of rehabilitation leads from each health board or health and social care partnership. Network members lead on supporting the application of the Six Principles of Good Rehabilitation and share best practice where the principles are already in place.
The introduction of the Rehabilitation Self-Assessment tool, issued to all 14 health boards in September 2024, will support the evaluation of progress against the Six Principles of Good Rehabilitation to improve rehabilitation services as set out in the Once for Scotland Rehabilitation Approach. The data collected through the self-assessment can be used to demonstrate the impact of rehabilitation services across health and social care services and raise the profile of rehabilitation.
Scottish Government reconfirmed the commitment to improving rehabilitation services through joining the World Rehabilitation Alliance (WRA) in May 2023. This global network of stakeholders supports the implementation of the Rehabilitation 2030 Initiative through advocacy activities. Scottish government continue to share approaches and learning internationally.