Chamber and committees

We plan on the bus continuing to provide cooking sessions for schools and communities for the foreseeable future. fo

Yes, the bus is still operational

Yes, the agreement was for three years, June 2008 to June 2011

The bus has been in operation since it''s launch in June 2008.

No, we plan on the bus continuing to provide cooking sessions for schools and communities for the foreseeable future.

The assimilation process of Agenda for Change is complete and all NHSScotland staff are being paid in accordance with the new system. Staff who were dissatisfied with their initial pay banding, however, had the right to request a review. The vast majority of these have now been done but some boards do still have reviews left to complete. Officials are monitoring progress closely and working with boards to establish a timeline for completion to ensure this last part of the Agenda for Change implementation process is finalised as quickly as possible.

The assimilation process of Agenda for Change is complete and all NHSScotland staff are being paid in accordance with the new system. Staff who were dissatisfied with their initial pay banding, however, had the right to request a review. School Nurses in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Board area have accessed the review system.

I understand that all the initial review panels in Glasgow have now taken place, and that, in some cases involving school nurses, review panels have not been able to reach agreement. The board has therefore decided to investigate this matter further. The board is very much aware of how important this is to staff and it is working hard to resolve the outstanding issues as soon as possible. Although I recognise that this further delay will be unwelcome for school nurses considering the time they have already waited, it is right that the board takes the time required to examine these issues properly.

We have consistently put emphasis on taking each aspect of implementation of Agenda for Change forward in full partnership between employers and staff side because we believe that this is the best way of ensuring that outcomes are robust.

Job title will not indicate a specific banding under the Agenda for Change system since job titles were often used quite generically previously. Rather it is the job description which is matched by a specially trained panel against a range of pre-existing job profiles. The job profile match will then indicate a pay banding. There are school nurse job profiles available at Band 5, Band 6 and Band 7 levels and the spread of these bandings in a given area will reflect how the board has chosen to organise this particular service.

As with most other staff costs, the finance to cover the salaries of staff on the Agenda for Change system comes from NHS boards'' general allocations. All staff are already being paid under the Agenda for Change system and all back pay in respect of initial banding has already been passed to the staff concerned. Staff who were dissatisfied with their initial pay banding had the right to request a review. Where a review results in an increase in banding, this may result in that staff member receiving a further payment of back pay. However, as with a range of other minor fluctuations in costs, this is a matter which boards would manage locally as part of their ongoing financial management of services and not something on which the Scottish Government would collect data.

The number of school library staff reported as being employed in each of 2006, 2008 and 2009 are shown in the following table.

	2006			2008			2009
	primary	secondary	special	primary	secondary	special	primary	secondary	special
Aberdeen City	-	11	-	-	14	-	-	14	-
Aberdeenshire	-	21	-	-	19	-	-	24	-
Angus	-	14	-	-	13	-	-	12	-
Argyll and Bute	-	10	-	-	9	-	-	10	-
Clackmannanshire	-	2	-	-	3	1	-	3	-
Dumfries and Galloway	-	11	-	-	8	-	-	11	-
Dundee City	-	10	-	-	10	-	-	11	-
East Ayrshire	-	9	-	-	6	-	-	8	-
East Dunbartonshire	-	9	-	-	8	-	-	8	-
East Lothian	-	6	-	-	6	-	-	6	-
East Renfrewshire	1	4	-	-	7	-	-	5	-
Edinburgh, City of	-	24	-	-	19	-	-	23	-
Eilean Siar	1	2	-	-	1	-	-	1	-
Falkirk	-	10	1	-	8	1	-	8	1
Fife	-	21	-	-	20	-	-	20	-
Glasgow City	-	27	1	-	28	-	-	26	-
Highland	-	15	-	1	18	-	2	19	-
Inverclyde	-	7	-	-	6	-	-	7	-
Midlothian	-	6	-	-	5	-	-	5	-
Moray	1	9	-	1	8	-	-	8	-
North Ayrshire	-	9	-	1	9	-	-	9	-
North Lanarkshire	-	26	-	-	21	-	-	22	-
Orkney Islands	-	2	-	-	2	-	-	2	-
Perth and Kinross	-	14	-	-	18	1	-	17	1
Renfrewshire	-	11	-	-	10	-	-	10	-
Scottish Borders	-	5	-	-	8	-	-	8	-
Shetland Islands	5	5	-	4	4	-	1	6	-
South Ayrshire	-	7	-	-	7	-	-	7	-
South Lanarkshire	-	13	-	-	16	-	-	8	-
Stirling	-	5	-	-	6	-	-	5	-
West Dunbartonshire	-	6	-	-	6	-	-	6	-
West Lothian	-	10	-	-	13	-	-	13	-
Scotland	7	339	2	7	334	3	4	340	2

 

It is likely that, in Eilean Siar and Shetland for 2006 and 2008, where library staff were working in through schools this may have been reported in both primary and secondary sectors, resulting in a small amount of double counting.

The 2006 data presented in the table for East Renfrewshire is a revision of the figure originally published in the Teacher Census statistical report.