Statistical information on respite care services (also called short break care services) provided or purchased by Local Authorities in Scotland. The release provides information for the last five years to give a picture of: the total number of respite weeks provided by each Local Authority in Scotland; the amount of daytime and overnight respite provided; and the amount of respite provision by age group (older people aged 65+; adults aged 18 to 64; and young people aged 0 to 17).
Statistical information on respite care services (also called short break care services) provided or purchased by Local Authorities in Scotland. The release provides information for the last five years to give a picture of: the total number of respite weeks provided by each Local Authority in Scotland; the amount of daytime and overnight respite provided; and the amount of respite provision by age group (older people aged 65+; adults aged 18 to 64; and young people aged 0 to 17).
Subject terms:
local authorities, older people, short break care, young people, adults;
A collation of suicide statistics for the UK, England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland using information available from the official statistics bodies for the years 2012-2014. The document provides data and a description of the suicide rates in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, identifying trends and including breakdowns by age group. It also provides details about how to use suicide data and the differences between countries’ ways of producing them. It reports that there were 6,581 suicides in the UK and Republic of Ireland, in 2014. The figures suggest that rates of suicide in men are decreasing and female rates are increasing, although men remain more than three times more likely to take their own lives than women across the UK and Republic of Ireland.
(Edited publisher abstract)
A collation of suicide statistics for the UK, England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland using information available from the official statistics bodies for the years 2012-2014. The document provides data and a description of the suicide rates in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, identifying trends and including breakdowns by age group. It also provides details about how to use suicide data and the differences between countries’ ways of producing them. It reports that there were 6,581 suicides in the UK and Republic of Ireland, in 2014. The figures suggest that rates of suicide in men are decreasing and female rates are increasing, although men remain more than three times more likely to take their own lives than women across the UK and Republic of Ireland.
(Edited publisher abstract)
Subject terms:
suicide, men, women, young people, adults, older people;
Content type:
statistical publication
Location(s):
United Kingdom, Ireland, England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
This is the 9th in a series of annual reports aiming to provide an independent assessment of progress in eliminating poverty and reducing social exclusion. It covers issues from work and education to health and housing. The analysis is built around a set of 50 indicators organised into 6 chapters. Four of the chapters are focused on particular age groups, namely children, young adults aged under 25, adults aged 25 to retirement, and adults above retirement. In addition, there is a chapter looking at low income and one looking at community issues. Among the findings are that half of all children still in poverty are living in families doing paid work. It concludes that unless the scale of in-work poverty can be reduced, future substantial reductions in child poverty are very unlikely. The big fall in poverty among pensioners has been a major success of the anti-poverty strategy. By contrast, the failure to reduce poverty among working-age adults has been a major weakness. Progress in the numbers reaching ‘headline’ standards at age 11 and 16 has been made but this diverts attention from the quarter of 19-year-olds who fail to reach a minimum educational standard.
This is the 9th in a series of annual reports aiming to provide an independent assessment of progress in eliminating poverty and reducing social exclusion. It covers issues from work and education to health and housing. The analysis is built around a set of 50 indicators organised into 6 chapters. Four of the chapters are focused on particular age groups, namely children, young adults aged under 25, adults aged 25 to retirement, and adults above retirement. In addition, there is a chapter looking at low income and one looking at community issues. Among the findings are that half of all children still in poverty are living in families doing paid work. It concludes that unless the scale of in-work poverty can be reduced, future substantial reductions in child poverty are very unlikely. The big fall in poverty among pensioners has been a major success of the anti-poverty strategy. By contrast, the failure to reduce poverty among working-age adults has been a major weakness. Progress in the numbers reaching ‘headline’ standards at age 11 and 16 has been made but this diverts attention from the quarter of 19-year-olds who fail to reach a minimum educational standard.
Subject terms:
low income, older people, poverty, social exclusion, unemployment, young adults, young people, adults, children, educational performance, health;
This report is the twelfth in the series and presents many graphs which are not only updated but entirely new in format. In addition the text has been presented differently with division into five chapters entitled, low income, the recession, child and young adult well-being, adult well-being and communities. The recession is detailed in chapter two with key indicators of debt and employment. The Child Poverty Duty was introduced in parliament in 2009 and is discussed in chapter one along with a section on people in low-income households. Many of the indicators identified in this, and previous reports, track much longer-term trends, and evidence from the previous two recessions show that, for example, unemployment will keep rising for some time after the current recession comes to an end. Examples of such indicators are illustrated in the child and young people well-being chapter, where education and health are continuing on positive trajectories begun much earlier in the decade. Adult well-being is looked at in chapter 4 for working age adults and their economic circumstances, for older people, their savings and access to services and for both from the point of view of ill health. The final chapter on communities looks at homelessness, fuel poverty and volunteering activities and introduced some indicators new to this report which look at issues such as trust and empowerment in neighbourhoods. This report, wherever data allowed, covered the whole of the United Kingdom (UK) but if, on occasion, some data was not available from Northern Ireland it was restricted to mainland Britain.
This report is the twelfth in the series and presents many graphs which are not only updated but entirely new in format. In addition the text has been presented differently with division into five chapters entitled, low income, the recession, child and young adult well-being, adult well-being and communities. The recession is detailed in chapter two with key indicators of debt and employment. The Child Poverty Duty was introduced in parliament in 2009 and is discussed in chapter one along with a section on people in low-income households. Many of the indicators identified in this, and previous reports, track much longer-term trends, and evidence from the previous two recessions show that, for example, unemployment will keep rising for some time after the current recession comes to an end. Examples of such indicators are illustrated in the child and young people well-being chapter, where education and health are continuing on positive trajectories begun much earlier in the decade. Adult well-being is looked at in chapter 4 for working age adults and their economic circumstances, for older people, their savings and access to services and for both from the point of view of ill health. The final chapter on communities looks at homelessness, fuel poverty and volunteering activities and introduced some indicators new to this report which look at issues such as trust and empowerment in neighbourhoods. This report, wherever data allowed, covered the whole of the United Kingdom (UK) but if, on occasion, some data was not available from Northern Ireland it was restricted to mainland Britain.
Subject terms:
homelessness, low income, older people, poverty, public health, quality of life, social exclusion, unemployment, young people, communities, debt, crime victims, educational performance, empowerment;