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We have committed to undertaking a feasibility study in 2017 into the extension of free personal care to those people under the age of 65 with a diagnosis of dementia. Although community alarms do not count as personal care, no decision has been made as to the scope of the feasibility study.

Our engagement paper “Mental Health in Scotland – a 10 Year Vision” made clear that one of the key proposed early actions in the next Strategy is perinatal Mental Health. We are currently finalising the Strategy.

The decision on whether to charge for a non-residential social care service is a matter for local government, and is subject to charging guidelines issued by the Convention for Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA). See http://www.cosla.gov.uk/about/how-we-work/health-and-social-care/charging/care-home.

SPS has a long standing relationship with the DWP who have placed JCP staff in all prisons either on a full time or part time basis. Partnership working is ongoing to ensure that access to employment support and benefit advice is continually improving.

SPS continues to work in collaboration with Scottish Government, third sector organisations and employers to provide Community Placements (release on temporary license) and post-liberation employment.

All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx

The requested information can only be provided for 2011-2015 as data captured prior to this is not comparable.

As such I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-02037 on 13 September 2016. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx

Data on how many people have been refused treatment from mental health services due to also having an alcohol or drug dependency issue is not held centrally.

I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-03083 on 6 October 2016.

The options under consideration were presented at two public exhibitions on 6 and 7 December.

The number of babies that required specialist neonatal care by NHS Board of residence in each of the last three years is presented in the following table. The data includes live singleton and multiple births; stillbirths are excluded. Babies in Intensive Care, High Dependency Unit, Special Care and Transitional Care are included in the total of babies requiring specialist neonatal care.

Live births requiring specialist neonatal care, by NHS Board of residence, 2013-14 to 2015-16

This information is not held centrally. Data is collected quarterly from all Boards for waiting times for a first appointment/assessment at the pain clinic/service and waiting times for a first pain psychology services appointment. These data (both adjusted and unadjusted) are reported quarterly by NHS National Services Scotland’s Information Services Division and is available at https://www.isdscotland.org/. The data published so far is from the quarter ending 31 December 2015. It is important to note that these data are Non-Official Statistics and remain caveated as developmental.

The Scottish Government has not undertaken a review into the appropriateness of perinatal mental health services. However, we have taken note of recent reports by the NSPCC (“Getting It Right”, published in April 2015) and the Mental Welfare Commission (“Perinatal Themed Visit Report: Keeping Mothers and Babies In Mind”, published in June 2016). Both of these reports examine perinatal mental health services in Scotland. We are thinking carefully about the best way to improve perinatal mental health services in Scotland, and will lay out more details on how we propose to do that in the forthcoming 10-year Mental Health Strategy, including funding a managed clinical network.