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To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of (a) the current supply of accessible and adapted housing and (b) whether current capacity meets demand.
Answered by McLennan, Paul - Minister for Housing
It is the statutory responsibility of local authorities through their Local Housing Strategy (LHS) and Development Plan to determine the appropriate housing required in their area, informed by a Housing Need and Demand Assessment. This includes consideration of existing housing provision and current and future requirements.
Where local authorities identify a strategic requirement for a particular type of home, including wheelchair accessible housing, projects to support delivery of these homes are expected to be included in Local Authority Strategic Housing Investment Plans for delivery through the Affordable Housing Supply Programme.
Since the integration of health and social care, Integration Joint Boards (IJBs) are responsible for the planning and delivery of adaptations using delegated budgets. IJBs are also responsible for reviewing and developing services to improve outcomes for people who require adaptations.
Jan. 09 2024
Source Page: Local council responses to plans to introduce a National Care Service: FOI releaseFound: DR/KC 1 November 2021 Kevin Stewart MSP Minister for Mental Wellbeing and Social
Mentions:
1: Gray, Neil (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) There are frameworks in place around the integration of health and social care that should allow for - Speech Link
2: Maguire, Ruth (SNP - Cunninghame South) We have had the integration for a number of years now—for a decade, even. - Speech Link
3: Gray, Neil (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) , where there has been very strong integration in health and social care across all levels of public - Speech Link
4: Gray, Neil (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) The integration agenda is about much greater collaboration between our health and social care partnerships - Speech Link
Mar. 05 2024
Source Page: Funding for Ukraine resettlement: letter to UK GovernmentFound: To: Minister for Housing and Homelessness Felicity BuchanFrom: Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice Shirley-Anne
Mentions:
1: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) shibboleth, a cult that means that a shared sense of community cohesion, values, principles, beliefs, social - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Such sentiments are reflected here in the UK.Many people from a wide range of ethnic and social backgrounds - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Durham (Bshp - Bishops) He is in full-time paid work as a social carer. - Speech Link
4: Lord Gascoigne (Con - Life peer) self-sufficient in the longer term, but there are also opportunities to engage with others, expand social - Speech Link
Correspondence Mar. 28 2024
Committee: Health, Social Care and Sport CommitteeFound: National Care Service (Scotland) Bill Stage 1 report full response Letter from the Minister for Social
Written Evidence Jan. 19 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: Migration and Diversity (GEM) is an initiative facilitating knowledge exchange, collaboration and social
Asked by: Adam Afriyie (Conservative - Windsor)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps (a) her Department and (b) NHS England have taken to incentivise the integration of digital technologies into cardiovascular disease care pathways.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Government’s commitment to develop a national digital service to support the NHS Health Check was announced in the Health Reform speech on 8 March 2022, and forms a part of the Department’s plan for digital health and social care. The vision is to increase the flexibility and reach of the NHS Health Check through the creation of an innovative, accessible national digital service, delivered alongside local face-to-face offerings, that helps people understand and take action when engaging with their cardiovascular health. Whilst there isn't any specific policy development surrounding integrating digital technologies into care pathways, NHS England has developed an information guide that will help clarify the commissioning pathway. This will encourage the adoption of digital health technologies into the National Health Service, including those in cardiovascular diseases.
May. 07 2024
Source Page: Independent review into civil unrest in Leicester 2022Found: National and international organisations with expertise in social integration, cohesion and any other
Mentions:
1: Todd, Maree (SNP - Caithness, Sutherland and Ross) work and social care sector. - Speech Link
2: None On Tuesday, I was referring to feedback about the operation of integration authorities, including integration - Speech Link
3: Todd, Maree (SNP - Caithness, Sutherland and Ross) That is the relationship between the local integration authorities and the national care board. - Speech Link
4: Mason, John (SNP - Glasgow Shettleston) So there will still be room for a bit of variation around the 31 integration authorities. - Speech Link