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Response Sheet
This consultation exercise is intended to help shape the provision of health care and other services for children and young people in Scotland. This response paper should be read in conjunction with the report National Delivery Plan - for Children and Young People's Specialist Services in Scotland
You need not comment on all of the content of the document and can focus on those areas in which you have a particular interest.
Responding to this consultation paper
We are inviting written responses to this consultation paper by Tuesday 27th May 2008. Please send your response to: childandmaternalhealth@scotland.gsi.gov.uk , or via the Internet, or to
The Child and Maternal Health Division
Scottish Government Health Department
Ground Rear
St Andrew's House
Edinburgh
EH1 3DGFax: 0131 244 4775
Handling your response
We need to know how you wish your response to be handled and, in particular, whether you are happy for your response to be made public. Please complete and return the Respondent Information Form as this will ensure that we treat your response appropriately. If you ask for your response not to be published we will regard it as confidential, and we will treat it accordingly.
All respondents should be aware that the Scottish Government are subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and would therefore have to consider any request made to it under the Act for information relating to responses made to this consultation exercise.
Next steps in the process
Where respondents have given permission for their response to be made public (see the attached Respondent Information Form), these will be made available to the public in the Scottish Government Library by end July 2008. We will check all responses where agreement to publish has been given for any potentially defamatory material before logging them in the library or placing them on the website. You can make arrangements to view responses by contacting the SG Library on 0131 244 4565. Responses can be copied and sent to you, but a charge may be made for this service.
What happens next?
Following the closing date, all responses will be analysed and considered along with any other available evidence to help us reach a decision. The draft National Delivery Plan will be adjusted to reflect comments received and the intention is that it will be published in the summer of 2008 as guidance from the Scottish Government.
Comments and complaints
If you have any queries or comments about how this consultation exercise has been conducted, please send them to: Gillian Garvie, The Child and Maternal Health Division , Scottish Government Health Department, Ground Rear, St Andrew's House, Edinburgh EH1 3DG. E-mail: gillian.garvie@scotland.gsi.gov.uk. If you would like this response sheet in another format or language, please contact Mary Sloan on 0131 244 4086.
RESPONDENT INFORMATION FORM: National Delivery Plan - for Children and Young People's Specialist Services in Scotland
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