Written Question · S1W-34950 · Session 1
What progress has been made in developing the secure estate following the announcement that five providers had been invited to adapt their …
The question
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in developing the secure estate following the announcement that five providers had been invited to adapt their plans to meet the geographical spread of places that it requires.
The answer
The Executive's Action Plan to reduce Youth Crime stated our intention to reconfigure the secure accommodation available across Scotland. Our objectives were to develop additional places for girls, to provide a better geographical spread and to introduce a wider variety of provision, which meets the needs of young people.We have now received and evaluated proposals from the five providers to help develop these objectives. In principle, subject to financial, value for money and other details being agreed, I am inviting four of the providers to develop the secure estate as follows:Kibble School
- 18 secure places (boys only);St Philip's School
- 18 secure places with six close support (mixed provision);Good Shepherd
- 12 secure and 12 close support. (girls only), andKerelaw School
- 12 secure (six boys only, six girls only) and 12 close support (mixed provision).The provision at Kerelaw will replace the existing secure provision. The other provision will be new.In addition, I have concluded that there is a need for 18 secure places in the north-east. Discussions are continuing with Rossie School to consider how this can best be achieved.We will provide grants to the successful providers to cover a substantial proportion of the capital costs.This proposal will increase the number of secure places in Scotland from 96 to 125: the 78 newly built secure places that will result from this proposal, together with the total of 47 places already available on four other sites: St Mary's Kenmure (31); The Elms, Dundee (4); Howdenhall (5) and St Katherine's (7), both Edinburgh. Once these developments are complete, all secure accommodation will be new or recently renovated to meet modern standards.This development will also result in an additional 30 close support places. Together with approximately 75 new intensive support and supervision places that are being funded through the Intensive Support Fund, this will provide a greatly improved range of residential options to meet the needs of our most troubled and troublesome young people.
- 18 secure places (boys only);St Philip's School
- 18 secure places with six close support (mixed provision);Good Shepherd
- 12 secure and 12 close support. (girls only), andKerelaw School
- 12 secure (six boys only, six girls only) and 12 close support (mixed provision).The provision at Kerelaw will replace the existing secure provision. The other provision will be new.In addition, I have concluded that there is a need for 18 secure places in the north-east. Discussions are continuing with Rossie School to consider how this can best be achieved.We will provide grants to the successful providers to cover a substantial proportion of the capital costs.This proposal will increase the number of secure places in Scotland from 96 to 125: the 78 newly built secure places that will result from this proposal, together with the total of 47 places already available on four other sites: St Mary's Kenmure (31); The Elms, Dundee (4); Howdenhall (5) and St Katherine's (7), both Edinburgh. Once these developments are complete, all secure accommodation will be new or recently renovated to meet modern standards.This development will also result in an additional 30 close support places. Together with approximately 75 new intensive support and supervision places that are being funded through the Intensive Support Fund, this will provide a greatly improved range of residential options to meet the needs of our most troubled and troublesome young people.
In the Official Report
No contribution in the Official Report cites S1W-34950 by reference.