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Scottish Government is not aware of any capital projects, other than that at the East Ayrshire Community Hospital PFI, where BAM Construct UK’s has a contractual funding relationship with the Ahli United Bank.

The Care Inspectorate now has responsibility, as of 1 April 2011, for inspecting, regulating and supporting improvement of care and social work and child protection services across Scotland. The Care Inspectorate has powers under section 62 of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 to serve an improvement notice on a care service, specifying the improvements required to bring a care service up to the standards required and the timescale for meeting these standards.

The Care Commission, as the Care Inspectorate’s predecessor, had similar powers to issue improvement notices under section 10 of the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001.

The total number of improvement notices issued by the Care Commission and/or the Care Inspectorate between 1 April 2007 to 31 July 2011 is 365, broken down on an annual basis as shown in the following table:

Improvement Notices Issued

As part of their inspection process The Care Inspectorate review both the qualifications and the continuing professional development training plans of care home provider staff. Inspectors take account of this information and use it as a factor to determine if there should be further scrutiny when planning an inspection.

Where The Care Inspectorate has concerns regarding qualifications or levels of training in a service they would include this as part of their inspection process and include this in their inspection reports. SSSC has a duty to publish workforce intelligence. The Care Inspectorate also shares anonymised workforce data with SSSC to enable them to report publicly on the workforce and their qualifications.

The SSSC does not have an inspection function. In the course of undertaking their workforce development, registration and regulation functions they do collect and make available to others, including The Care Inspectorate, information related to the qualifications and training of social care staff. SSSC does not have enforcement powers over employers and does not routinely collect information on the staff development and training strategies produced by employers.

The service currently provided by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is on a voluntary basis and is not part of the board’s core, statutory provision. In these circumstances there is no need to carry out a clinical risk assessment as the changes do not impact on patient care.

The Social Responsibility was widely consulted upon prior to the passing of the Alcohol etc. (Scotland) Act 2010.

No meetings have been held with stakeholders to discuss the social responsibility levy since the passing of the act.

The Social Responsibility was widely consulted upon prior to the passing of the Alcohol etc. (Scotland) Act 2010.

No action has been taken to implement the social responsibility levy. The Scottish Government has been clear that the levy will not be taken forward until the wider economic circumstances are right.

The direct service costs are largely recovered from promoters but do not include the time of the boards civil contingencies team and pharmacy staff in planning and managing this process.

In 2010 the total costs of providing medical and nursing cover and medical bags was £77,171.

As part of their inspection process The Care Inspectorate review both the qualifications and the continuing professional development training plans of care home provider staff.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has been discussing these changes with partner agencies and key interested parties including Glasgow City Council, since March.