Question reference: S5W-31800
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 14 September 2020
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Current status: Answered by Maree Todd on 24 September 2020
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports of delays in processing Disclosure Scotland applications for care home staff.
Answer
We are aware that the restarting of business as usual (non-COVID) disclosure services by Disclosure Scotland in early June has seen some disclosure applications taking longer than during the full lockdown period.
Over the past month, the average processing time for COVID-related PVG applications from registered care services (the category that includes care home staff) has been 6.1 days, with the average processing time for business as usual applications being 9.3 days.