Scottish Government

Footnotes

1. Protected adult is the term used in the Act, and consequently this RIA, for adults protected by the scheme by virtue of receiving a care service. For the purposes of enhanced disclosure, they are currently known as "adults at risk".
2. These figures are significantly less than the 330,000 checks and 60,000 Scheme Records estimated in the financial memorandum (paragraph 207). There was a degree of double counting of workforce turnover in the modelling which has now been eliminated.