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When we published ‘Every Child, Every Chance: Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan 2018-2022’ we made a commitment to invest £0.5m in flexible family learning with Gypsy/Traveller families over the lifetime of the Plan (2018-2020). This will build on additional funding of £275,000 (2018-20) to STEP to strengthen the delivery of education to children and young people in the Gypsy/Traveller community. This work is underway and – alongside engagement with Gypsy/Traveller communities – will inform how the Child Poverty Delivery Fund money will be spent over the next three years .

Policy officials have started preliminary work to understand the experience of people who are homeless as a result of domestic abuse, alongside a wider piece of work on equalities across the Ending Homelessness Together Action Plan. A number of internal meetings have taken place with teams from across the Scottish Government to understand more about the context, raise awareness, and identify the right external stakeholders to take the work forward. In addition, we are currently considering an appropriate platform to develop a domestic abuse prevention pathway by summer 2020.

The Scottish Government does not collect further information regarding the “other (known)” outcome category.

We plan to consult with users via the Homelessness Statistics User Group, which has a provisional meeting date of September and will explore whether there are any outcomes which are commonly recorded under the “other (known)” category. If this is the case, such outcomes can be added as additional categories to this question. However, there will always be an “other (known)” category, as it is not feasible to include all possible outcomes within the local authority data collection and published statistics.

Of the cases reported in the outcome category “Not known”, a large proportion are cases where contact has been lost prior to duty discharge. Of the cases reported in S5W-22646, 51% of “not known” outcomes of those with no local connection in 2015-16 had lost contact prior to duty discharge, in 2016-17 this accounted for 64% and in 2017-18 73%.

The Scottish Government is happy to further discuss the “Not known” category with Local Authorities at the next Homelessness Statistics User Group meeting, which is provisionally scheduled for September, to obtain an indication of the feasibility of taking further steps to record and better classify these outcomes where contact has not been lost.

I can confirm that a working group, chaired by CELCIS, met on 20 May to start a time-limited process aimed at developing an improved pathway to prevent homelessness for people with experience of care. As a result of this meeting, the group is in the process of considering the specific actions required to improve the housing journey of young care experienced people in Scotland. Members will discuss this in further detail at meetings scheduled for 30 July and 28 August.

We are making excellent progress towards our target of delivering 50,000, affordable homes, 35,000 of which will be for social rent, backed by a record investment of £3.3 billion.

The most recently published Quarterly Housing Statistics show that since April 2016 to end March 2019, we have delivered 25,405 affordable homes, 16,419 of which are for social rent – keeping us well on track to deliver our ambitious target over the course of this Parliament.

This government can be very proud of its record on affordable housing having now delivered more than 86,000 affordable homes since 2007.

Official published statistics for the Affordable Housing Supply Programme (AHSP) show that for the three year period to 31st March 2019, there were a total of 30,749 homes recorded as affordable housing starts. The official statistics can be found using the following link: ;

It should be noted that whilst the majority of homes delivered through the AHSP will be new build, the programme also includes rehabilitation projects, off-the-shelf purchases and homes for low-cost home ownership from existing housing stock.

The next set of official statistics in respect of the AHSP are due to be published in September.

Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) completed a diagnostic exercise with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s ESTEEM service (in January 2019) and NHS Highland’s Argyle and Bute Mental Health team (in February 2019). The aim of the exercise was to collect data to inform HIS’s Short Life Working Group on Early Intervention Psychosis (EIP) of the current early intervention service provision in an urban and rural environment.

The diagnostic exercise collected data on the current implementation of available evidence and guidelines, the current levels of demand, referral sources, clinical pathways, workforce, staff competencies (actual and required), and potential future developments that could be supported by a national action plan.

The results have been used to inform our Vision paper, which lays the groundwork for a nationwide improvement in EI Psychosis services in urban, semi-urban and rural settings.

The Scottish Government’s Quality Indicator (QI) profile includes a specific measure (Quality Indicator T5) of the percentage of first presentation psychosis patients starting evidence-based treatment within 2 weeks.

Several of the other QIs are directly relevant in terms of providing better data about the care and treatment of people with recurring and long term mental health conditions, including psychosis. QIs that will provide relevant data include:

• E3 - % people with severe and enduring mental illness and / or learning disability who have had their BMI measured and recorded in the last 12 months. ‎
• E4 - % of people seen for at least 1 month that show improvement in functioning using any clinical outcome measurement over the previous month. ‎
• E5 - % of people seen for at least 1 month that show improvement in symptom severity using any clinical outcome measurement over the previous month. ‎
• Eq5 - % of caseload with an active anticipatory care plan. ‎
• P5 - % of people in mental health services seen for at least 1 month that show improvement in any personal outcome measurement over the previous month.

The QI profile is currently in the process of being rolled out across Scotland. Further information on the QIs can be found here:

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for the Affordable Housing Supply Programme (AHSP) show that for the three year period to 31st March 2019, a total of 16,419 homes for social rent have been delivered. Over the same period, a total of 19,943 homes for social rent have started on site.

The next set of quarterly official statistics on AHSP approvals, site starts and completions to end June 2019 are due to be published in September 2019.