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The Official Report is a written record of public meetings of the Parliament and committees.  

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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 8 August 2025
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Public Audit Committee

“Covid-19 vaccination programme”

Meeting date: 28 October 2021

Colin Beattie

Do you know why it has not been published?

Public Audit Committee

“Covid-19 vaccination programme”

Meeting date: 28 October 2021

Colin Beattie

Have any NHS boards developed their own health inequalities impact assessments?

Public Audit Committee

“Community justice: Sustainable alternatives to custody”

Meeting date: 28 October 2021

Colin Beattie

I detect a certain amount of uncertainty in your responses over whether everybody understands their roles and responsibilities. Perhaps one of the issues is that the community justice partners still remain accountable through their usual accountability arrangements. Does that create an issue?

Public Audit Committee

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

Meeting date: 7 October 2021

Colin Beattie

I have one thing that I want to add. Martin McKay quite rightly mentioned money, which is the lifeblood of any service. The Scottish Government has earmarked £40 million for improvements to CAMHS. What should those improvements be?

Alex Cumming, maybe you are the right person to ask first.

Public Audit Committee

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

Meeting date: 7 October 2021

Colin Beattie

Donna, do you have anything to add?

Public Audit Committee

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

Meeting date: 7 October 2021

Colin Beattie

Okay. We have established that CAMHS referrals have dropped by 17 per cent, and the suggestion is that that is possibly due to school closures and limited access to GPs, rather than a reduction in overall demand. To what extent is there an unknown backlog of cases that are not yet being seen by CAMHS? I put that to Alex Cumming first.

Public Audit Committee

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

Meeting date: 7 October 2021

Colin Beattie

Auditor General, you have so far escaped a bit of questioning, so I have a couple of questions for you. As has been pointed out, in paragraph 7 you say that the number of people waiting for treatment has trebled over the past 12 months, yet at the same time the number of referrals to CAMHS has gone down by 17 per cent. How do you equate these figures?

Public Audit Committee

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

Meeting date: 7 October 2021

Colin Beattie

Convener, I am conscious of time, so I will draw to a close.

Public Audit Committee

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

Meeting date: 7 October 2021

Colin Beattie

I have a second question for you. In paragraph 13, you say, “Geography matters too.” How do you make that link when NHS Grampian has over a three-year period significantly increased its capacity, and even NHS Tayside has made some significant improvements from a low level? Those are a couple of NHS boards that have been on our naughty step in the past. How does that link? You seem to be implying, by saying that geography matters and so forth, that it is more difficult to be effective if you have a spread population, yet Grampian, and to a lesser extent Tayside, have spread populations.

Public Audit Committee

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

Meeting date: 7 October 2021

Colin Beattie

My original question was about whether there is an unknown backlog of cases that are not yet evident.