How many specialist mental health officers there have been in each local authority area in each of the last five years.

Answered Asked by Jim Hume LD Lodged 16 Oct 2014

The question

To ask the Scottish Government how many specialist mental health officers there have been in each local authority area in each of the last five years.

The answer

Answered by Michael Matheson on 12 Nov 2014 · 27 days after it was lodged, on time

For each of the three financial years to 31 March 2012 information on the number of mental health officers in each local authority area was published on the Scottish Government’s website as part of the Mental Health Officers Survey.
2011-12: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2012/06/3674 (Page 17)
2010-11: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2011/06/27145626/0 (Page 18);
2009-10: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/08/30114721/0 (Page 16);
The Scottish Social Services Council now publishes this information in its Mental Health Officers (Scotland) Report on a year to 31 December basis:
2013: http://data.sssc.uk.com/images/MHO/Mental%20Health%20Officers%20Report%202013.pdf (page 44)
2012: http://data.sssc.uk.com/images/publications/MentalHealthOfficersReport2012.pdf (Page 27)

In the Official Report

No contribution in the Official Report cites S4W-22862 by reference.