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Of the £51 million allocated, £41.7 million is being routed through local authorities to Community Learning and Development Partnerships. The attached table shows the allocation of funding to local authorities for 2001-06. The balance of funding was allocated to learning connections within Communities Scotland to support the partnerships.

Allocation of Resources to Local Authorities for Adult Literacy and Numeracy (2001-06)

	2001-02 (£)	2002-03 (£)	2003-04 (£)	2004-05	2005-06	Total
Aberdeen City	78,305	156,611	301,621	316,122	357,000	1,209,659
Aberdeenshire	80,237	160,474	309,062	323,920	366,000	1,239,693
Angus	44,585	89,171	171,736	179,993	203,000	688,485
Argyll and Bute	39,482	78,964	152,078	159,390	180,000	609,914
Clackmannanshire	28,178	56,355	108,536	113,754	129,000	435,823
Dumfries and Galloway	74,235	148,470	285,943	299,690	339,000	1,147,338
Dundee City	95,732	191,465	368,747	386,475	437,000	1,479,419
East Ayrshire	95,530	191,059	367,966	385,657	436,000	1,476,212
East Dunbartonshire	28,447	56,894	109,574	114,842	130,000	439,757
East Lothian	29,122	58,244	112,173	117,566	133,000	450,105
East Renfrewshire	27,356	54,713	105,372	110,438	125,000	422,879
Edinburgh	255,368	510,735	983,638	1,030,928	1,166,000	3,946,669
Falkirk	61,672	123,344	237,551	248,971	281,000	952,538
Fife	148,822	297,644	573,240	600,799	679,000	2,299,505
Glasgow City	546,117	1,092,234	2,103,561	2,204,694	2,493,000	8,439,606
Highland	85,557	171,115	329,555	345,399	390,000	1,321,626
Inverclyde	65,822	131,645	253,538	265,727	300,000	1,016,732
Midlothian	34,566	69,132	133,142	139,543	158,000	534,383
Moray	35,239	70,479	135,737	142,263	161,000	544,718
North Ayrshire	84,625	169,250	325,963	341,634	386,000	1,307,472
North Lanarkshire	148,187	296,375	570,796	598,238	676,000	2,289,596
Perth and Kinross	46,485	92,969	179,052	187,660	212,000	718,166
Renfrewshire	99,797	199,593	384,402	402,883	455,000	1,541,675
Scottish Borders	41,615	83,230	160,294	168,001	190,000	643,140
South Ayrshire	57,280	114,560	220,635	231,242	261,000	884,717
South Lanarkshire	133,142	266,284	512,844	537,500	608,000	2,057,770
Stirling	40,305	80,610	155,248	162,712	184,000	622,875
West Dunbartonshire	68,838	137,676	265,154	277,902	314,000	1,063,570
West Lothian	51,640	103,280	198,909	208,472	236,000	798,301
Western Isles	27,973	55,947	107,749	112,929	128,000	432,598
Orkney Islands	20,746	41,492	79,910	83,752	95,000	320,900
Shetland Islands	24,994	49,989	96,275	100,904	114,000	386,162
Totals*	2,700,000	5,400,000	10,400,000	10,900,000	12,322,000	41,722,000

Note: *Rounded to nearest £1,000.

The main reasons for not achieving the 80,000 new adult literacy and numeracy learners during the period 2001 to 2004 are as follows:

Community Learning and Development partnerships found it difficult to engage new learners.

Delay in establishing the “development engine” within Communities Scotland.

A shortage of suitably trained ALN tutors.

Campaign to engage employers not yet in place.

The above issues are all currently being addressed.

A target of helping 80,000 new adult literacy and numeracy learners in Scotland for the period 2001-04 was recommended in the Adult Literacy and Numeracy in Scotland report, published in July 2001. The target number was not broken down by local authorities.

The following table gives a breakdown of new learners helped in each local authority area during the period 2001- 2004 as shown in their end year reports.

Local Authority	Actual	Actual	Actual	New Deal/ Job Centre+	Total
	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2001-04	2001-04
Aberdeen City	1,737	2,526	551	0	4,814
Aberdeenshire	984	168	595	11	1,758
Angus	1,173	618	821	0	2,612
Argyll and Bute	484	312	208	23	1,027
Borders	98	117	356	0	571
Clackmannanshire	118	174	268	120	680
Dumfries and Galloway	357	360	623	59	1,399
Dundee	621	795	913	77	2,406
East Ayrshire	85	462	262	7	816
East Dunbartonshire	193	209	247	0	649
East Lothian	136	529	780	0	1,445
East Renfrewshire	87	14	49	0	150
Edinburgh	2,762	2,189	4,815	0	9,766
Falkirk	331	820	470	0	1,621
Fife	1,624	2,344	2,988	0	6,956
Glasgow	3,125	4,486	5,752	30	13,393
Highland	466	395	691	0	1,552
Inverclyde	438	383	422	0	1,243
Midlothian	0	407	491	0	898
Moray	180	383	136	0	699
North Ayrshire	431	647	933	0	2,011
North Lanarkshire	366	1,125	872	5	2,368
Orkney	71	53	58	90	272
Perth and Kinross	572	163	293	0	1,028
Renfrewshire	422	584	839	365	2,210
Shetland	82	148	166	14	410
South Ayrshire	318	947	1,219	0	2,484
South Lanarkshire	387	746	628	0	1,761
Stirling	398	420	256	286	1,360
West Dunbartonshire	240	359	575	0	1,174
West Lothian	328	388	400	0	1,116
Western Isles	79	141	181	1	402
Totals	18,693	23,412	27,858	1,088	71,051

 

The retention strategy was designed to address the principal reasons for resignation, i.e. failure of local authorities to implement supervision requirements; overstretch caused by too many hearings per session and poor facilities at hearings centres; late reports; lack of support from employers, and, lack of appreciation and support for the role played by the membersof the children’s panel.

In response the Antisocial Behaviour (Scotland) Act 2004 gave children’s panels the power to challenge local authorities through the courts where supervision requirements have not been properly implemented.

The Executive funded the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration (SCRA) to enhance its capital development programme. This will lead to a series of improvements to facilities at hearings centres, including family friendly improvements and property replacements.

SCRA has led the development of standards in the timing and management of children’s hearings, which will be implemented in 2005.

The Scottish Executive has refreshed the time intervals process to refocus on key standards so that agencies (police, SCRA and local authorities) can minimise the time it takes from referral of a child to implementation of hearings’ decisions.

The Scottish Executive has raised awareness amongst employers through an insert in the March 2004 Forum of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry, short television programmes in 2004 as part of the Talking Scotland series and through individual approaches to employers to stress the benefits to business of the transferable skills of trained panel members. Further work with employers is planned for 2005.

Since 2002 the Scottish Executive has actively demonstrated the value it places on the contribution of panel members by implementing many aspects of the retention strategy, e.g.

introduced an indemnity scheme for volunteers in the hearings system where they might be;

held a reception for panel members at Edinburgh Castle in 2004, hosted by the First Minister;

introduced an annual long service event for panel members with awards for those serving 25 years (the next such event is planned for March 2005);

provided funding for laptop computers for panel chairmen and their deputies;

introduced an extranet on the children’s hearings website to improve sharing of training and best practice materials;

developed software to help panel chairs compile panel rotas;

rolled out IT training for panel chairs, and,

provided media training for panel chairs.

The Scottish Executive, alongwith the UK Government is committed to eradicating child poverty within a generation.The Executive’s Closing the Opportunity Gap approach to tackling poverty works bothdirectly and indirectly across all its departments, and within numerous spendingstreams. Universal services such as health, education and child care benefit allchildren, with an emphasis on meeting the needs of the most vulnerable. Expendituretargeted on areas of deprivation such as the Community Regeneration Fund also hasan impact on children. A number of funding streams are specifically directed atdisadvantaged children such as Sure Start funding. The range of spending that hasan impact on children in poverty means it is not possible to give a total figurefor previous or future years.

The following table presents the number and proportion of children living in low income households in Scotland from 1996-97 to 2002-03. Figures are produced annually and estimates for 2003-04 are not yet available. Estimates are available at Scotland level only, not by local authority area.

Proportion and Number of Children in Low Income Households, Below 60% of GB Median Income After Housing Costs, Scotland

	Absolute				Relative
	Before Housing Costs		After Housing Costs		Before Housing Costs		After Housing Costs
	%	Numbers	%	Numbers	%	Numbers	%	Numbers
	Thousands
1996-97	30	330	34	380	30	330	34	380
1997-98	27	300	30	330	29	310	31	340
1998-99	26	290	29	320	27	300	31	340
1999-2000	20	220	24	260	24	260	28	310
2000-01	18	190	21	230	25	260	30	320
2001-02	14	140	16	170	25	260	30	320
2002-03	12	130	16	170	23	240	27	280

 

The key low income results, above,are for 60% of both the relative and absolute GB median thresholds. Estimates onthe full range of income thresholds and explanation of how these estimates are calculatedare published in Households Below Average Income, 1994-95 – 2002-03, copiesof which are available in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 32212).

The relative low income measurecompares against the median of the same year. The absolute measure compares againstthe median in the baseline year of 1996-97, uprated to remove the effects of inflation.The figures are estimates based on a sample survey and are therefore subject tosampling variation. As such, small percentage changes are not significant when consideredon a year-on-year basis; identification of trends should be based on several yearsof data.

No. This is a complex issue andwe do not think the calculation would be meaningful.

Estimates on the full range ofincome thresholds and explanation of how these estimates are calculated are publishedin Households Below Average Income, 1994-95 – 2002-03, copies of which areavailable in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 32212).

All children should achieve totheir full potential at school and we have a wide ranging programme in Ambitious,Excellent, Schools to help them do so.

NHS treatment for unintentional injuries may be provided in a number of health settings, including general practice, accident and emergency departments and as an in-patient in a hospital. Data available nationally, at a level of detail that would allow the place of the injury (e.g. home) to be identified, are only available for those patients admitted as an inpatient to a hospital. In general, it is likely that patients admitted to hospital will have a more serious injury than those treated in general practice or within accident and emergency departments.

Information on the number of those admitted as an in-patient to hospital in the period 1999-2000 to 2003-04 by age group is shown in the following table. Full information for 2004-05 is not yet available.

The Scottish Executive has procured a national accident and emergency system for recording unintentional injury that is presently being rolled out across NHSScotland.

Table 1. Number of Emergency In-Patient Hospital Admissions as a Result of an Unintentional Injury by Age Group, Year Ending 31 March

Type of Injury 1	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Home Injuries 2	18,809	17,962	17,963	17,312	16,676
	494	476	485	447	440
1-4	2,544	2,346	2,338	2,097	1,905
5-9	939	842	822	776	732
10-14	471	434	444	408	380
15-24	819	881	827	694	650
25-44	2,166	2,132	1,995	1,814	1,694
45-64	2,624	2,533	2,461	2,449	2,417
65-74	2,160	2,074	2,123	2,020	2,032
75+	6,592	6,244	6,468	6,607	6,426
All Injuries 3	66,090	66,251	67,199	64,642	60,339
	628	623	642	621	615
1-4	3,944	3,689	3,722	3,395	3,127
5-9	3,923	3,602	3,557	3,407	3,232
10-14	4,063	3,671	3,905	3,688	3,559
15-24	9,005	9,386	9,678	9,158	7,969
25-44	14,767	15,181	15,370	14,210	12,683
45-64	10,735	11,217	11,128	10,987	10,506
65-74	5,917	5,931	5,839	5,810	5,678
75+	13,108	12,951	13,358	13,366	12,970
Percentage Home Injuries	28.5	27.1	26.7	26.8	27.6
	78.7	76.4	75.5	72.0	71.5
1-4	64.5	63.6	62.8	61.8	60.9
5-9	23.9	23.4	23.1	22.8	22.6
10-14	11.6	11.8	11.4	11.1	10.7
15-24	9.1	9.4	8.5	7.6	8.2
25-44	14.7	14.0	13.0	12.8	13.4
45-64	24.4	22.6	22.1	22.3	23.0
65-74	36.5	35.0	36.4	34.8	35.8
75+	50.3	48.2	48.4	49.4	49.5

Source:ISD Scotland (SMR01).

Notes:

1. These statistics are derived from data collected on discharges from non-obstetric and non-psychiatric hospitals (SMR01) in Scotland.

2. Home injuries are identified using SMR01 admission type code 33 – Patient Injury (inc poisoning in the home).

3. Unintentional injuries are identified using SMR01 admission type codes 32-35, these include;

32 – Patient injury, Road Traffic Accident (RTA).

33 – Patient injury, Home injury (including accidental poisoning in the home).

34 – Patient injury, injury at work.

35 – Patient injury, other injury (including accidental poisoning other than in the home), not elsewhere classified.

This information is not held centrally and is an operational matter for the Chief Constable of Lothian and Borders Police.