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Review of residential drug detoxification and rehabilitation services in Scotland
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Results of a review of the availability, decision-making process, use and cost of existing residential detoxification and rehabilitation services in Scotland are presented. The review aimed to help inform future policy and funding decisions. Local Alcohol and Drug Action Teams (ADATs) provided information on the number of detoxification and rehabilitation beds are there in Scotland, the number of people on waiting lists, how much is spent in each NHS area on residential detoxification and rehabilitation, who decides that someone should go into residential treatment and who agrees to funding, and the availability of facilities to help and support drug users and their families whilst they wait to enter residential facilities. Attention was focused on residential detoxification and rehabilitation services which have a defined goal of making the client drug free.
Moving forward: a strategy for improving young people’s chances through youth work
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 64p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This strategy aims to support long-term growth in the youth work sector with more opportunities for young people, volunteers and youth workers, better facilities and more effective, targeted support at a national level. Some of the measures outlined are long-term changes, for example, a commitment to recognising the role youth work can play across the Scottish Executive in shaping and delivering broader policy aims. These aims include getting more young people into education, training or employment, tackling sectarianism and supporting young people dealing with issues relating to drugs or alcohol. The strategy also includes a range of shorter-term measures to put in place new support structures and boost the capacity of the sector to take forward the longer-term vision. The strategy therefore proposes a 'Year of Action' on youth work to improve facilities and training, to develop volunteering and to fund projects developed by local partnerships.
Helping you meet the costs of learning: funding for disabled students 2006-2007
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 42p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This Guide gives an overview of the funding available from August 2006 for disabled learners and is a useful guide to practitioners giving advice to others. This booklet uses the term 'disabled learners' to refer to learners with a wide range of impairments, such as those who have sensory impairments, physical impairments, mental health difficulties, dyslexia, autistic spectrum disorders, epilepsy, diabetes, etc.This booklet provides information about the different types of financial support that is available to disabled learners, including general financial support and funding specifically available for disabled people. It also summarises information about getting welfare benefits as a disabled student.
Changing lives: Scottish Executive response to the report of the 21st Century Social Work Review
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Changing Lives, the report of the 21 st Century Social Work Review, set out a compelling and challenging vision for the future direction of social work services. In the Executive's immediate response to the report, Ministers welcomed the findings of the review, accepted all 13 recommendations and gave a commitment to act upon them. This implementation plan sets out proposals to do that. The aspirations of Changing Lives represent major cultural change and will be achieved only by a concerted effort at national and local levels over an extended period. Implementation will therefore be both a collaborative process, with a strong emphasis on shared learning, and a progressive process, where plans for the next stage build upon the successes of the one before. A process which recognises that there is no one blueprint for future services that meets every need in every circumstance. This plan sets out the processes the Executive intends to put in place to support a five year change programme. It also sets out detailed milestones and funding proposals for the first two years of that programme.
Funding for disabled students
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 64p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The Review of Provision for Students with Disabilities was initiated by the Funding for Learners (FFL) division of the Scottish Executive in spring 2005 in order to examine the support available to students with disability-related additional needs studying at Further Education (FE) and Higher Education (HE) level in Scotland. The main aim of the project is to consider options to improve the efficient and effective use of the existing financial resource for individual support for disabled students, within the context of institutional funding to support widening access. The review also considers the feasibility of introducing a single system of support, which would be based on need, rather than level of study.
Helping you meet the costs of learning: students with dependent children 2006-2007
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 29p.
This guide gives an overview of the funding available from August 2006 for leaners or potential learners and is a useful guide to pratitioners giving advice to others. You might also read this leaflet if you are a parent who is about to do a full or part-time course in either further education or higher education, as it provides details of the financial support you may be eligible for and how to apply for any assistance.
Efficiency technical notes: March 2006
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 187p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The Scottish Executive Spending Proposals 2005-2008 were published in September 2004. Integral to those proposals was the commitment to manage public sector resources more effectively, contributing to a growing economy, and to modernise and improve Scotland’s public services. In the Spending Proposals, Target 1 for the Finance and Public Services portfolio was to make government in Scotland more efficient and release £500 million of recurring cash releasing efficiency savings for investment in frontline services by March 2008. A technical note for this Spending Review target was published in December 2004 and this set out the criteria for cash and time releasing efficiencies. In November 2004, a plan to attack waste, bureaucracy and duplication was published. The Efficient Government Plan built upon work from the previous five years and set efficiency targets for the three years to 2007-08. The total cash releasing saving for 2007-08 was set at £745m with the aspiration to achieve £900m, and the total time releasing saving for 2007-08 was set at £300m with the aspiration to achieve £600m. In March 2005 the first set of Technical Notes was published. They were all cash releasing projects. This was followed in September 2005 by the second set of Technical Notes which included the first set of time releasing technical notes, new cash releasing technical notes and all previous cash releasing technical notes, including amendments where appropriate. This third document is the newly revised complete set of technical notes as at March 2006. These notes will continue to be subject to update periodically in the course of the three-year programme as more information becomes available, as project planning evolves and as circumstances change. The template has also been amended to take account of recommendations made by the Finance Committee in its report on the 2006-07 draft Budget. One technical note template now exists for both time and cash releasing technical notes, which clearly sets out the inputs and outputs that will be measured along with the baseline for measuring changes in inputs and outputs. The Technical Notes record the basis and direction for all the underlying efficiency projects which together make up the savings contained within the Efficient Government Plan and it will be against those intentions that progress will be monitored and assessed.
Electronic service delivery: a progress report by Scottish local authorities
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive,|Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 42p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This report provides a measure of progress against Electronic Service Delivery (ESD) targets for all Scottish local authorities. Councils are using internet technologies to provide answers to the most frequently asked questions. Delivering an A to Z of services along with information that explains who to contact, where to go, etc. These information services are now being developed into interactive solutions that provide customers with online access. There is a commitment by councils to allocate appropriate resources to ESD initiatives and to provide information on progress through formal reporting structures; 24% of local authorities currently publish ESD progress on the internet with over 55% providing the information on their own intranets. There is a consensus from the majority of councils to support the development of a common framework for reporting future progress, including measuring uptake on electronic service delivery across Scotland.
Response to the Royal Commission on Long Term care: October 2000
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The Royal Commission, was set up to examine the short and long term options for a sustainable system of funding long term care for older people both in their own homes and in other settings and to recommend how and in what circumstances the cost of such care could be apportioned between public funds and individuals. This report sets out the Scottish EXecutive's recommendations and endorsements of the Report.
Review of funding for the voluntary sector: direct funding from the Scottish Executive
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The Scottish Executive is conducting a review of its direct funding of the voluntary sector. This paper seeks the views of individuals and organisations with an interest in this issue.