³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ

I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-42157 on 4 December 2025. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at /chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers.

The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that the human rights of disabled people are protected and respected, and that they are empowered to live their lives, the same as everyone else.

We are putting disabled people at the heart of our priorities, investing £3 million in the Disability Equality Plan - including a new £1.5 million Improving Access Fund, co-designed with Disabled People’s Organisations and others, to enhance access to vital services and support that disabled people rely on. We are also providing £20 million this year via the Independent Living Fund, £10 million in 2025-26 and 2026-27 to provide more Changing Places Toilets for people with profound and multiple disabilities and £2 million a year to deliver Annual Health Checks to people with learning disabilities aged sixteen and over.

Third sector organisations also play a vital role in providing support and improving outcomes for disabled people and the Scottish Government provides a range of funding to a number of these organisations. This includes Down’s Syndrome Scotland, which currently receives £382,500 in core funding from the Scottish Government.

Furthermore, Under the , all Scottish public authorities must have 'due regard' to the need to:

• eliminate unlawful discrimination
• advance equality of opportunity
• foster good relations

In 2012 Scottish Ministers made regulations that placed on Scottish public bodies to help them meet the general duty.

We have not set out any Good Food Nation key groups. We have established a Ministerial Working Group on Food, which consists of ministers whose portfolio touches on food policy, as well as an official level working group. Both of these groups are strictly for managing the internal workings of government and improving cross-portfolio collaboration. One of the main aims of the Good Food Nation (Scotland) Act 2022 is to ensure joined up and coherent policy making in relation to food. This will require extensive engagement with a wide range of stakeholders within and outwith the Scottish Government to ensure the views of those with an interest are taken into account. This will include agricultural stakeholders and food producers as they all have a key part to play in meeting the ambitious Outcomes set out in the national Good Food Nation Plan, particularly around ensuring our food and drink sector is prosperous, diverse, innovative and vital to national and local economic and social wellbeing.

I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-42157 on 4 December 2025. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at /chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers.

I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-42157 on 4 December 2025. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at /chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers.

The Scottish Government values our dedicated, caring and professional social care workforce.

The Scottish Government has not made any assessments on the impact of any issues involving care packages on the social care workforce. Whilst the Scottish Government has overall responsibility for health and social care support policy in Scotland, it is for local Integration Joint Boards (IJBs) to ensure that social care support services are in place to provide their population with the appropriate support in the right place and at the right time.

The information requested is not held centrally and is a matter for local authorities.

Statistics published by the Scottish Government on Adult Support and Protection activity undertaken by local authorities in 2024-25 showed that 49 large scale investigations (LSIs) were reported to have been undertaken by local authorities in 2024-25. Of those, 22 were reported as taking place in care homes. The number of care beds affected was not reported. The statistical publication this is drawn from is available on the Scottish Government website at: .

I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-42157 on 4 December 2025. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at /chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers.

Whilst the Scottish Government is not a social care provider or employer, we work closely with partners across the sector to provide support that employers can access, that will allow them to attract and retain staff within the social care sector.

The Scottish Government funds the caretocare.scot website, which provides information and tools on careers in the adult social care sector.

The Scottish Government have also continued funding to enable all social care providers to advertise vacancies on the MyJobScotland recruitment website at no cost.

We have worked with partners to establish the Centre for Workforce Supply (CWSS), which helps to support ethical and sustainable international recruitment across the sector and have just announced the opening of a £500,000 scheme to support employers to recruit displaced international care workers into jobs in Scotland.

We do not hold any information on the extent that staff shortages affect hospital discharge times. Whist the Scottish Government has overall responsibility for health and social care support policy in Scotland, it is for local Integration Joint Boards (IJBs) to ensure that social care support services are in place to provide their population with the appropriate support in the right place and at the right time.

I refer the member to the answers to questions S6W-42039 and S6W-42047 on 1 December 2025.