Parliament Workbench

Petition · PE01545 · Session 4

Residential care provision for the severely learning disabled

Closed Submitted 2 Dec 2014 Health
Signatures
1
Comments
0
Considered
18 meetings
in the Official Report

What it asks

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to recognise residential care as a way severely learning disabled children, young people and adults can lead happy and fulfilled lives and provide the resources to local authorities to establish residential care options for families in Scotland.

What the petitioner did first

I met with Cabinet Secretary for Health Alex Neil to discuss this issue in May 2013 but no Scottish Government action was taken forward as a result. I later sent him an open letter calling for more residential care options in Scotland but, again, the Scottish Government didn’t commit to taking a fresh look at this issue.

In addition, I have brought up the issue of long-term residential care in formal written evidence submissions to Scottish Parliament consultations and have raised the issue in the local and national media.

As the lack of suitable residential care options is a problem affecting the whole of the UK, I also met with UK Minister of State for Care and Support Norman Lamb MP to bring the issue to his attention.

Where it was considered

Official Report
  1. 3 Mar 2015
    Public Petitions Committee
    New Petitions
    1 mention
  2. 26 May 2015
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  3. 27 Oct 2015
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  4. 12 Jan 2016
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  5. 30 Jun 2016
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  6. 29 Sep 2016
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  7. 30 Mar 2017
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  8. 11 May 2017
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  9. 26 Oct 2017
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  10. 15 Mar 2018
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  11. 7 Jun 2018
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  12. 25 Oct 2018
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  13. 22 Nov 2018
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  14. 10 Jan 2019
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  15. 6 Jun 2019
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  16. 5 Dec 2019
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  17. 10 Sep 2020
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  18. 9 Dec 2020
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention

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