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Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Information about The Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000, which provides ways to manage the financial and welfare affairs of people who are unable to manage them for themselves. Suitable for professionals and lay people.
Special measures for vulnerable adult and child witnesses: a guidance pack
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 149p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This guidance pack is designed to provide practitioners with information about the use of special measures for vulnerable adult and child witnesses. It also provides information about applying for special measures and some examples of circumstances where the use of each special measure may be most helpful. For the purposes of the guidance pack, ‘practitioners’ are understood to include Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service staff, other legal practitioners, children’s reporters, the police, court personnel, social workers, Victim Support Scotland volunteers and workers in other support organisations. The guidance contained in the pack is relevant to both child witnesses and adult vulnerable witnesses, although there are specific references to child witnesses where provisions differ. It is non-statutory and is not an authoritative statement of the law but aims to ensure a commitment to practice, which does not discriminate on the grounds of race, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation or age. It is expected that application of the guidance should assist consistency in the use of special measures across Scotland. This guidance pack contains separate guidance on each of the special measures in addition to guidance on applying for special measures and on identifying the most appropriate special measures for child witnesses.
Vulnerable Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2004: information guide
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scoltand. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The purpose of this booklet is to provide practitioners with a brief guide to the vulnerable witnesses (Scotland) Act 2004 and information about how it is being implemented.
Vital Voices: helping vulnerable witnesses give evidence
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 44p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000: code of practice for persons authorised under intervention orders and guardians
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 139p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000: information on Part 6 of the Act - intervention orders and guardianship
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Astron
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Being outside - constructing a response to street prostitution
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 98p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Concern is rising regarding the incidence of prostitution in Scotland, the damage which results to those involved, the harm which can result to the communities affected and the possible association with a range of serious criminal activities, such as drug misuse and people trafficking. The Scottish Parliament has considered this concern in the context of possible introduction of legally sanctioned 'management zones' - but the Expert Group was set up to examine and advise on all issues relevant to prostitution, rather than just this single aspect. Street prostitution is overwhelmingly an urban phenomenon, concentrated in the four large Scottish cities. The numbers of women involved are difficult to quantify, but informed estimates have been made for each of the four cities, which shows a total, Scotland-wide, of about 1,400 women involved, of whom about 180 are likely to be on the streets of the four cities each night. Key common factors in street prostitution across Scotland were identified. Street prostitution is overwhelmingly a survival behaviour for the women involved, who have an accumulation of serious personal difficulties and few resources with which to develop a less damaging way of life. Poverty, drug misuse, and to a lesser extent alcohol misuse, are intrinsically linked to most street prostitution in Scotland. Redevelopment is affecting the context of street prostitution - and complicating the capacity to respond effectively. Service responses which are deployed need to be specific to the task of tackling street prostitution if they are to work.
Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Astron
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Leaflet about the Adults with Incapacity Act
Safer recruitment through better recruitment: guidance in relation to staff working in social care and social work settings
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 35p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This document is intended to help employers, especially in the social care and social work sectors, to meet existing requirements in relation to the safer recruitment and selection of people who work with service users in these sectors. It also sets out Scottish Ministers’ expectation that employers will work towards continuous improvement of their safer recruitment practice in relation to those who will work with the most vulnerable people. The guidance was developed by the Safer Recruitment Group with representation including employers from both the statutory and independent sectors and professionals from social work services and human resources.
The Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) bill: pre-consultation discussion paper on secondary legislation
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 39p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) bill sets out how the vetting and barring scheme will operate in general terms and secondary legislation will be used to provide the details of the scheme and ensure it operates effectively. This discussion paper has been produced in response to the Education Committee’s stage 1 report on the Protection of Vulnerable (Groups) bill. The preference to see draft regulations prior to the amending stage in the Bill would have led to a significant delay in progressing the primary legislation and securing the robust safeguards and protections which will flow from the new vetting and barring scheme. The discussion paper sets out the issues and policy options on the three substantive secondary legislation areas namely, retrospective checking, determination criteria, and fees. Full and comprehensive consultation will follow.