Committee
Health and Community Care Committee, 15 Jan 2003
15 Jan 2003 · S1 · Health and Community Care Committee
Item of business
Mental Health (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
Speaker
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Section 21—Services designed to promote well-being and social development
In the same item of business
The Convener (Mrs Margaret Smith):
LD
Good morning and welcome to this morning's meeting of the Health and Community Care Committee. We have one agenda item: stage 2 of the Mental Health (Scotlan...
Section 20—Care and support services etc
The Convener:
LD
Amendment 51 is grouped with amendments 237, 238, 52, 239 and 53 to 56.
The Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care (Mrs Mary Mulligan):
Lab
Good morning. I warn members that my first explanation will be lengthy, although I assure them that subsequent explanations will be shorter.Amendments 51 to ...
Scott Barrie (Dunfermline West) (Lab):
Lab
I have listened carefully to what the minister has said about the three amendments in my name. She said that some of what they try to achieve is already cove...
Mary Scanlon (Highlands and Islands) (Con):
Con
I want to raise a point that I have made during the passage of both the Community Care and Health (Scotland) Bill and this bill. I am concerned about the joi...
The Convener:
LD
In the absence of a specific amendment on that wording, I direct the minister to concentrate on the member's general point.
Mr John McAllion (Dundee East) (Lab):
Lab
As I understand the minister's arguments on amendments 237 and 238, the amendments are redundant because provision is made within the 1995 act for children w...
Mrs Mulligan:
In response to Scott Barrie, I say that the definition of "children in need" was necessarily wide to ensure that all children and young people to whom the de...
Amendment 51 agreed to.
Section 20, as amended, agreed to.
Section 21—Services designed to promote well-being and social development
Amendments 237 and 238 not moved.
Amendment 52 moved—Mrs Mary Mulligan—and agreed to.
Amendment 239 not moved.
Amendment 53 moved—Mrs Mary Mulligan—and agreed to.
Section 21, as amended, agreed to.
Section 22—Assistance with travel
Amendment 54 moved—Mrs Mary Mulligan—and agreed to.
Section 22, as amended, agreed to.
Section 23 agreed to.
Section 24—Relationship between duties under sections 20 to 22 and duties under Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 and Children (Scotland) Act 1995
Amendments 55 and 56 moved—Mrs Mary Mulligan—and agreed to.
Section 24, as amended, agreed to.
Section 25—Co-operation with Health Boards and others
Amendment 57 moved—Mrs Mary Mulligan—and agreed to.
Section 25, as amended, agreed to.
Section 26—Assistance from Health Boards and National Health Service trusts
Amendments 58 to 60 moved—Mrs Mary Mulligan—and agreed to.
Section 26, as amended, agreed to.