- Asked by: Gil Paterson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 7 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria are used for deciding which projects will receive funding from the Changing Children's Services Fund.
Answer
The proposals will be considered by an assessment panel, including officials from the Scottish Executive Development, Education, and Health Departments and a voluntary sector representative, against the criteria set out in the guidance on the fund.
- Asked by: Gil Paterson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 7 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what role smaller voluntary agencies have played, or will play, in allocating the funds from the Changing Children's Services Fund for 2002-03.
Answer
Guidance issued on the fund advised that proposals would need to show real evidence of participation by key voluntary organisations (both the larger national organisations and smaller community-based organisations) at each stage in the process. This will be one of the criteria considered in the assessment process.
- Asked by: Gil Paterson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 29 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-24252 by Jim Wallace on 21 March 2002, which other recommendations from the Expert Panel on Sex Offending's report, Reducing the Risk: Improving the response to sex offending, have been implemented and when it will implement any other of the committee's recommendations that have not been implemented.
Answer
I plan to publish the Executive's full response to the report of the Expert Panel on Sex Offending next month. In the meantime, we have included in the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill provisions to implement the recommendations which will improve the information provided to Scottish courts.
- Asked by: Gil Paterson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 24 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to the third supplementary question to question S1F-1777 on 21 March 2002, whether the technology to stop tobacco advertising on the web will also be suitable for stopping the advertisement of pornographic material on the web.
Answer
Regulation of pornographic content on the internet is a reserved matter.
- Asked by: Gil Paterson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 23 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what resources are available in schools to support young people experiencing domestic abuse.
Answer
Last year the Scottish Executive piloted the Zero Tolerance Charitable Trust's "Respect" package in schools and youth groups in Edinburgh and Glasgow. The aim of this package is to raise awareness amongst young people of the issues around domestic abuse, and to encourage them to build relationships based on respect and equality. We are currently considering an evaluation of the Respect pilot.More generally, there is a range of resources available to support schools in dealing with issues relating to personal safety. Of particular relevance is the report, Promoting Personal Safety and Child Protection in The Curriculum, issued by the Scottish Office in 1998. This report stressed the need for all pre-school centres and schools to be proactive in helping children and young people to develop their knowledge and understanding of personal safety issues and the skills to deal with them. The report showed how this could be made an integral part of the curriculum.
- Asked by: Gil Paterson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 23 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-22969 by Mr Jim Wallace on 6 March 2002, when the consultation document on vulnerable witnesses will be published.
Answer
The Consultation Paper will be published on 1 May 2002.
- Asked by: Gil Paterson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 17 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it plans to take to stop unsolicited pornographic pictures, adverts for pornographic sites and e-mails advertising pornography appearing on the internet.
Answer
The regulation of the internet is a reserved matter under the Scotland Act 1998. However, the criminal law is devolved and the general position in law is that what is illegal off-line is also illegal online. The statutory provision on the display of obscene material and indecent photographs of children is contained in sections 51 and 52 of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982. The Criminal Justice (Scotland) Bill will increase the maximum penalties available to the courts for offences under the 1982 act.
- Asked by: Gil Paterson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 17 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what evaluation has been undertaken on projects funded by the Domestic Abuse Development Fund from its inception to March 2002 and when the results of any such evaluation will be available.
Answer
The National Group on Domestic Abuse is committed to tackling the key actions set out in the National Strategy to Address Domestic Abuse in Scotland. Monitoring the fund and undertaking an assessment of the impact upon improving local provision is one of these key actions and will be discussed at the next meeting of the national group, to be held next month, when the draft specification for the assessment will be considered. We will make the results available when the assessment is complete.
- Asked by: Gil Paterson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 17 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1O-4876 by Ms Margaret Curran on 14 March 2002, what training will be provided to ensure that the respect project is successfully rolled out to schools and how any such training will be funded.
Answer
The issue of the provision of training and how such training will be funded forms part of the discussions I am holding with other ministers on how the Executive will proceed with the "roll-out" of the Zero Tolerance Charitable Trust's "Respect" materials to schools.
- Asked by: Gil Paterson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 22 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 15 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many short-term sex offenders have been released from HM Prison Edinburgh in each month since September 2001.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
September | 1 |
October | 4 |
November | 2 |
December | 3 |
January | 5 |
February | 4 |