Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.
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To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the Reform Scotland briefing, Closing the early years gap.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-23612 by Maree Todd on 19 June 2019, whether it will provide a further breakdown by race.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-23634 by Clare Haughey on 12 June 2019, when the review by NHS Health Scotland and NHS Education for Scotland of existing mental health and suicide prevention training products is expected to conclude, and whether it still plans to fund the creation and implementation of refreshed mental health and suicide prevention training.
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that children and young people who attempt to take their own lives have to wait weeks for specialist mental health support.
To ask the Scottish Government how many modern apprenticeships in early learning and childcare have started in each of the last three years, broken down by (a) age and (b) gender of apprentice.
To ask the Scottish Government how many childminders it expects will be required to deliver the expanded 1,140 hours of funded early learning and childcare.
To ask the Scottish Government what the size is of each sector of the early learning and childcare workforce, broken down by the (a) headcount and (b) full-time equivalent figure.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of the costs associated with the early learning and childcare recruitment campaign that was launched in 2017, and what analysis and evaluation it has made of the outcomes.
To ask the Scottish Government how many early learning and childcare partner providers are trialling the expansion to 1,140 funded hours, and how many of these have had a Care Inspectorate inspection regarding this.
To ask the Scottish Government what action it has taken in the last year to reduce the number of rejected CAMHS referrals.