Committee
Public Petitions Committee, 28 Jun 2005
28 Jun 2005 · S2 · Public Petitions Committee
Item of business
Current Petitions
Therapeutic Work Initiatives (Funding) (PE820)
PE820 calls on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Executive to ensure that adequate funding is provided for therapeutic work initiatives to assist people with psychotic psychiatric disability. At its meeting on 23 February, the committee agreed to write to the Scottish Executive, the Scottish Association for Mental Health, the Disability Rights Commission and Capability Scotland and to copy the petition to the Equal Opportunities Committee for information. Do members have views on the petition?
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The Convener:
Lab
PE820 calls on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Executive to ensure that adequate funding is provided for therapeutic work initiatives to assist ...
Mrs Ewing:
SNP
The petition was lodged by Graham Clark, who runs Shamanic Studios, which is a small, non-profit studio in my constituency. I meet him regularly and he readi...
Jackie Baillie:
Lab
I support therapeutic work initiatives and value the benefits that they can bring to people. However, I am hesitant about discussing funding for a specific o...
Mike Watson:
Ind
I support Jackie Baillie's view. However, I note that the response from Capability Scotland raises the point that she mentioned and says that the approach th...
The Convener:
Lab
Why not? We will ask the petitioner to comment. I hope that we can consider a response from the minister at the same time as we consider the petitioner's res...
Meeting closed at 12:50.