Parliament Workbench

Petition · PE01744 · Session 5

Psychiatric service dogs in Scotland

Closed Submitted 5 Aug 2019 Health
Signatures
0
60 online signatures with a country
Comments
4
Considered
2 meetings
in the Official Report

What it asks

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to recognise the valuable role psychiatric service dogs can play in helping people recover from trauma and mental ill health, and to fund a pilot programme of accredited psychiatric service dogs in Scotland.

What the petitioner did first

I met with Linda Fabiani MSP to discuss this petition. I have also researched the varying types of service dogs and confirmed that psychiatric service dogs are not currently available in the UK.

Where it was considered

Official Report
  1. 10 Oct 2019
    Public Petitions Committee
    New Petitions
    1 mention
  2. 19 Mar 2020
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention

Signatures by country

60 online signatures
  1. Scotland52 86.7%
  2. United Kingdom8 13.3%

Comments

4 comments, oldest first
  1. marjory greig 12 Aug 2019
    a very worthwhile cause which would assist a lot of anxiety sufferers.
  2. Andrena Blizzard 21 Aug 2019
    We have these types of companion dogs in Australia. They do help tremendously..They are known generally as assistance dogs.
  3. Jimminy cricket 23 Aug 2019
    10 out of 10
  4. E Mair 16 Sep 2019
    I've found reading dogs to be very successful so it would be good to have dogs working with trauma patients as they are a calming influence