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This information is notcollected centrally.

The Health Department established a common definition for the calculation of sickness absence as part of the occupational health minimum dataset pilot collection. The three years information is due to be published shortly and while the pilot data is not considered robust enough to be published by NHSScotland employer, the intention is for future publications to be published at that level.

A pilot collection of occupational health and safety statistics has been made over the period 2000-01 to 2002-03 and these are due to be published shortly. The published data is not considered robust enough to be issued by NHS employer and will be shown by Scotland; Acute Trust, Island boards and Scottish Ambulance Service; Primary Care Trust, State Hospital, and Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service; and health boards and special health boards not providing healthcare. The data collected on sickness absence is a percentage of the hours lost. The trend for the three years collected is:

	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03
Scotland	4.81%	5.24%	4.63%
Acute Trusts	4.55%	5.06%	4.29%
Primary Care Trusts	5.15%	5.58%	5.21%
Health Boards	5.80%	3.92%	4.23%

 

Information on the level of occupational sick pay is not collected centrally.

NHSScotland is committed to reducing sickness absence. To help employers accomplish this, the Partnership Information Network issued guidance in January 2003 on Managing Health at Work. The section on “promoting attendance” section has the aim of helping employers to make the most of reducing short and long term absence by promoting positive attitudes to work and reducing staff ill-health as far as possible.

The management proceduresfor promoting attendance are set out in the Managing Health at Work PartnershipInformation Network guideline. NHSScotland employers are expected to meet orexceed the guideline which can be seen at following website address http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/health/pinmhw.pdf.

A pilot collection of occupational health and safety statistics has been made over the period 2000-01 to 2002-03 and these are due to be published shortly. The published data is not considered robust enough to be issued by NHS employer and will be shown by Scotland; Acute Trust, Island boards and Scottish Ambulance Service; Primary Care Trust, State Hospital, and Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service; and health boards and special health boards not providing healthcare. The data collected on sickness absence is a percentage of the hours lost. The trend for the three years collected is:

	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03
Scotland	4.81%	5.24%	4.63%
Acute Trusts	4.55%	5.06%	4.29%
Primary Care Trusts	5.15%	5.58%	5.21%
Health Boards	5.80%	3.92%	4.23%

The total costs associatedwith bank nurse, agency nurse and locum usage for 2002-03 are as follows:

Bank Nurse spend - £39million

Agency Nurse spend - £28.1million

Locum spend (fordirectly employed medical and dental locum staff in NHS Scotland) - £17.4 million (full year to March 2003).

Funds are distributed tolocal authorities through Grant Aided Expenditure (GAE). In 2004-05, the GAEfor Education is £3,808 million. This figure includes £256 million forprovision for special educational needs. However, a number of Programmes withinEducation GAE also help support children with special educational needs. Forexample, £25 million is being allocated through the Inclusion Programme tosupport pupils in mainstream schools. A further £21 million is being providedfor the Alternatives to Exclusion Programme and to implement the DisciplineTask Group recommendations. The Integrated Community Schools Programme totals£21.5 million to help promote social inclusion and the raising of educationalstandards.

The GAE for Education doesnot represent a budget or spending target, but forms part of a more complexformula used to calculate the total revenue grant figure. It is for individuallocal authorities to determine how much they allocate to each service,including special educational needs, from their total unhypothecated revenuegrant. Revenue grant will increase by4.8% in 2004-05, with further above inflation increase planned for 2005-06.

There are also a number of otherExecutive funding programmes for local authorities, which support, although notexclusively, children with special educational needs. For example, in 2004-05,the Changing Children’s Services Fund totals £60.5 million and will supportbetter integration of services for children and young people.

An additional £12 millionwill also be made available in 2004-05 to support preparation for theimplementation of the Additional Support for Learning Bill.

The Scottish Executive does not collate centrally information on the number of applicationsfor enforcement for child contact orders.

Notified figures for 2002-03 are provided in the following table. The final audited figures for 2002-03 are not yet available, with seven returns from local authority auditors outstanding. Updated mandatory and discretionary relief provided by each authority for 2001-02 is also provided in the following table.

 

Local Authority	2001-02		2002-03
	Mandatory	Discretionary	Mandatory	Discretionary
Aberdeen City	15,114,699	450,521	15,729,961	466,739
Aberdeenshire	4,258,192	1,096,701	4,311,822	1,151,225
Angus	2,941,267	366,186	2,064,549	397,002
Argyll and Bute	2,657,965	708,806	2,772,019	687,020
Clackmannanshire	1,540,410	95,699	1,607,194	108,347
Dumfries and Galloway	3,207,808	2,455,708	3,080,743	720,820
Dundee City	6,935,138	386,695	7,108,110	402,382
East Ayrshire	3,056,638	256,565	3,353,083	230,799
East Dunbartonshire	2,242,835	394,509	2,107,686	394,199
East Lothian	2,569,005	578,525	2,601,655	608,338
East Renfrewshire	1,703,534	242,909	1,940,472	246,658
Edinburgh, City of	33,893,083	1,317,072	36,217,591	1,426,862
Eilean Siar	1,136,602	205,115	1,245,793	212,442
Falkirk	4,187,703	206,148	4,466,600	224,766
Fife	12,789,488	566,131	13,772,724	616,285
Glasgow City	36,262,296	1,788,959	42,488,955	1,962,955
Highland	8,307,167	1,628,100	9,208,924	1,401,990
Inverclyde	3,102,866	260,964	3,431,485	288,300
Midlothian	3,159,031	305,641	3,388,751	319,343
Moray	1,765,172	379,980	1,855,876	423,636
North Ayrshire	4,642,893	480,554	5,341,530	509,289
North Lanarkshire	8,773,963	450,302	10,435,883	513,327
Orkney	481,582	208,917	499,848	205,060
Perth and Kinross	4,215,487	757,915	3,994,523	764,661
Renfrewshire	7,083,191	350,394	8,588,017	383,801
Scottish Borders	3,131,441	1,390,394	3,204,536	484,657
Shetland	1,848,117	401,842	2,037,978	413,308
South Ayrshire	4,270,338	325,710	4,377,503	329,680
South Lanarkshire	9,215,901	663,131	11,102,586	869,377
Stirling	3,596,802	520,253	3,878,357	543,915
West Dunbartonshire	3,462,681	148,376	4,139,702	188,661
West Lothian	6,644,470	465,984	9,769,901	475,024
Scotland	208,197,765	19,854,706	230,124,357	17,970,868

 

In 2002 there were 1,138court actions for child contact and residence in the Sheriff Court.There were also 6,422 divorce actions some of which may have includedapplications for contact or residence. In the Court of Session there were 68“Family Actions” raised and six “Husband-Wife” cases which did not includedivorce but may have included applications for contact or residence.

In 2003 there were 989 courtactions for child contact and residence in the Sheriff Court. There were also6,126 divorce actions some of which may have included applications for contactor residence some of which may have included applications for contact orresidence. In the Court of Session there 66 “Family Actions” and 6“Husband/Wife”cases which did not include divorce but may have included applications forcontact or residence.

As many applications forchild contact and residence are integral to other court actions, such asdivorce, it is not possible to separately identify the legal aid costs of suchapplications.