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The Scottish Government is committed to delivering a high quality healthcare service to the people of Scotland, including those with liver disease. To support NHS Scotland ensure it has the workforce capacity to deliver those services, we published the National Health and Social Care Workforce Strategy on 11 March 2022, which outlines our ambitions for recovery, growth and transformation of our workforce. Workforce projections for Health and Social Care will be published later this year. These will incorporate evidence from local Three Year Workforce Plans.

We will support Health Boards with their recruitment needs as set out in their plans directly through investment in international recruitment.

NHS Scotland's staffing levels are at a record high, and have now increased for ten consecutive years. We have also funded record numbers of healthcare education places this academic year.

Information about applying to the fund, including the criteria involved, is available on the Zero Waste Scotland website at: https://www.zerowastescotland.org.uk/content/circular-textiles-fund

The Scottish Government has published guidance for local authorities which includes what safeguarding measures, such as disclosure checks, should be in place for people arriving through the Super Sponsor scheme and the private sponsor scheme. This guidance can be found on the Scottish Government website: https://www.gov.scot/publications/super-sponsor-scheme-and-homes-for-ukraine-guidance-for-local-authorities/pages/person-checks/

In addition to the above, the Scottish Government has published Public Protection guidance for all practitioners involved in safeguarding of children and adults who are arriving in Scotland from Ukraine to identify and respond to risk and need, which can be found here .

National Records of Scotland met with representatives from over 30 of Scotland’s Universities and Colleges, and with organisations such as Young Scot, FindAUniversity and NUS Scotland, to drive awareness across institutions of the importance of supporting and enabling students to complete their Census.

An information pack was sent to every manager of student accommodation, containing information on how students should be included within the census. For students living in privately rented accommodation, NRS included information on the census website to clarify roles and responsibilities for completing the census.

A multi-faceted promotional campaign was developed to reach as high a proportion of the adult population across Scotland as possible. This included targeted activity to reach groups of the population identified in research as likely to need more encouragement and support to complete the census, including students and young people.

Throughout May, six in person events were held at university campuses and college sites in order to directly engage with the student population and to provide help and support to complete the census. These events were targeted in areas of lower returns, including Glasgow and Dundee.

NRS, supported by Young Scot, created bespoke assets (posters, social media assets, podcasts etc.) shared on a variety of channels. Social media influencers were also used to target young people and students on relevant platforms.

In line with the Scotland wide approach, people living in houses of multiple occupation were offered a range of help and support to complete Scotland’s Census via the census website and Freephone helpline. Census Field Staff provided further in-person support to facilitate completion. Individual questionnaires were offered to anyone aged 16 or over who wished to provide responses in private.

Scanning of paper questionnaires for Scotland’s Census 2022 is in line with the 2011 census and the 2021 census in England Wales.

Full information on the coding and data processing methods employed on Scotland’s Census 2022 is published on the NRS website. Comparisons to 2011 and the 2021 census in England and Wales are made where appropriate.

Statistical methodology | Scotland's Census (scotlandscensus.gov.uk)

The Scottish Government is a key partner in the Save a Life for Scotland Partnership. The delivery of the Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Strategy 2021 – 2026 is facilitated and overseen by two groups; the Strategy Delivery Group and the Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Reference Group.

The Scottish Government attended the most recent meeting of the Strategy Delivery Group on 7 April 2022.

The most recent meeting of the Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Reference group, also attended by Scottish Government, took place on 27 April 2022.

Scottish Government also took part in a Save a Life for Scotland partner’s meeting on 18 May 2022.

The role of Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) Applications Service Manager at Zero Waste Scotland will be funded from Zero Waste Scotland’s Scottish Government Grant Award. The position is a fixed term appointment until 25 August 2023.

A rigorous approach is taken to ensure accurate census paper questionnaire data.

Paper questionnaires are scanned and the answers are captured digitally using character recognition software. During scanning, the system looks to automatically allocate a numeric code to each answer, which allows the data to be easily analysed. Trained Quality Control operators perform daily checks on a sample of cases to ensure the quality of data captured from scanned questionnaires meets expectations.

It is not always possible to automatically allocate valid codes during scanning as some answers provided are not always on lists the system matches to. To ensure complete information is recorded, National Records of Scotland (NRS) set up a manual coding service where trained coding operatives visually inspect census questionnaires and make a decision on the most accurate code to assign.

Further manual inspections of the paper forms are made by NRS staff to check allocated categories and codes.

The publication of the Household Food Waste Behaviours Research was delayed due to reprioritisation of work during the COVID-19 pandemic; however, results have continued to inform ongoing intervention and communication development. Zero Waste Scotland has confirmed this report is currently being reviewed to ensure the information remains valid and appropriate to publish as a standalone document. The cost of this work was £20,000.

Public Health Scotland published the Melanoma Quality Performance Indicators report on 7th June. It can be found here: Melanoma Cancer Quality Performance Indicators - Patients diagnosed between July 2018 and June 2021 - Melanoma Cancer Quality Performance Indicators - Publications - Public Health Scotland .