- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 1 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made towards elimination of long-stay hospital places, as referred to in The same as you? A review of services for people with learning disabilities.
Answer
The number of individualswith learning disabilities in long-stay hospitals has been coming down for sometime, and at October 2002 was around 900. Lennox Castle near Glasgow closed in May 2002, Birkwood Hospital inLanarkshire in September 2002, and the Royal Scottish National Hospital at Larbert closed in early 2003.
Many people with learningdisabilities who formerly lived in a hospital are now living in the community,with packages of care and support tailored to meet their individual needs.
AShort Life Working Group of the national The same as you? Implementation Groupis preparing a report on hospital closures which is due soon. Itsrecommendations will be intended to help ensure the 2005 target is met.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 1 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made towards ensuring the provision of mainstream health services, as referred to in The same as you? A review of services for people with learning disabilities.
Answer
the Scottish Executive is planning to spend over £7.3 billion this year onproviding health services for everyone in Scotland, including people with learning disabilities.
Wepublished Promoting Health,Supporting Inclusion in July 2002, about thecontribution that nurses and midwives can make to the care and support ofpeople with learning disabilities. It aims to ensure that all nurses and midwivesrecognise the particular needs of people with learning disabilities, and worktowards promoting and improving their health.
We have asked NHS Health Scotland toundertake a Needs Assessment of the health needs of children and adults withlearning disabilities in Scotland, to inform the development and commissioning ofservices for the future. This is expected in the autumn.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 1 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to alter the balance in spending on learning disability services and, in particular, whether it will move the emphasis of such spending away from hospitals.
Answer
It has long been the Scottish Executive’s policy to move the emphasis of spending on learning disabilityservices away from hospital provision. The learning disability change funds we providedfrom 2001-02 are a lever for moving the balance towards services in the community.There has also been a significant shift in spending away from hospital provisiontowards supporting people with learning disabilities to live in the community.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 1 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made towards providing more day opportunities in education, leisure and employment, as referred to in The same as you? A review of services for people with learning disabilities.
Answer
Provision of dayopportunities is a matter for local authorities, who provide such services.Many local authorities arein the process of reconfiguring their day services, in accordance with therecommendations of The same as you? Information for each area can beobtained from individual local authorities.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 1 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made towards providing less formal day care, as referred to in The same as you? A review of services for people with learning disabilities.
Answer
Provision of day care is amatter for local authorities, who provide such services.
Many local authorities arein the process of reconfiguring their day services, in accordance with therecommendations of The same as you? Information for each area can beobtained from individual local authorities.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 1 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made towards the foundation of a Scottish centre for learning disability, as referred to in The same as you? A review of services for people with learning disabilities.
Answer
The Scottish Consortium forLearning Disability was established during 2001 with funding from the ScottishExecutive, and officially launched by Malcolm Chisholm, then Deputy Ministerfor Health and Community Care, on 5 October 2001.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom McCabe on 1 September 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made towards ensuring that more children are educated in mainstream schools, as referred to in The same as you? A review of services for people with learning disabilities.
Answer
We have legislated for theinclusion of all children in mainstream schools, subject to certain prescribedcircumstances. The Executive will monitor the impact of the new legislationwhich took effect from 1 August 2003.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 27 August 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-27752 by Iain Gray on 15 August 2002, what the current status is of the Rethinking Construction Panel and the Core Industry Group.
Answer
The Modernising Construction Strategic Group, involving industry, clients and government, was formed in October 2002 and has been facilitated by Scottish Enterprise. The group has finalised a three-year strategy paper for improving the industry, which was presented to me today and published. A key recommendation within the paper is the creation of a Scottish Construction and Innovation Forum, the chair of which will attend UK-wide groups to share knowledge and learning.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 August 2003
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 27 August 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what the current status is of the Modernising Construction initiative and how this initiative will relate to the recent formation of Construction Excellence as a UK body.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-1813 today. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, thesearch facility for can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 July 2003
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Answered by Margaret Curran on 19 August 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-24490 by Ms Margaret Curran on 13 May 2002, what meetings it has had with Her Majesty's Government regarding the fingerprinting and photographing of visitors to the Dungavel House immigration removal centre and what the outcome of any such meetings was.
Answer
The management and operation of Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre is the responsibility of the Home Office. I have not had any meetings with the Home Office regarding this issue.
