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Scottish Community Care Statistics 1999

Special Needs Housing

Tables 1.9 and 1.10 contain information on special needs housing for older people. For definitions on which the data are collected, please refer to the notes in annex A.

Table 1.9: Special Needs Housing for Older People, 1980-1999

	1980	1985	1990	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Very Sheltered	..	..	..	671	719	1,183	1,414	1,620
Sheltered	7,324	16,574	26,737	33,687	34,976	35,484	35,927	36,708
Of Which Sheltered Wheelchair ¹	154	558	1,207	1,790	2,068	2,139	2,864	2,780
Amenity	3,120	4,214	10,456	19,013	18,535	17,871	17,579	20,216
Other Dwellings with Alarms ²	..	..	..	23,121	27,769	32,490	35,793	37,152
All Dwellings	10,444	20,788	37,193	76,492	81,999	87,028	90,713	95,696
No. of Dwellings per 1000 Pop'n aged 65 and over	14	28	49	98	105	111	116	122

¹Sheltered Wheelchair is a subset of Sheltered Housing.
²Dwellings are adapted to suit particular needs of tenants, so numbers in these categories may rise or fall from year to year.
Source: SEDD Housing Statistics - S1B Return

Table 1.9 presents the number of special needs housing dwellings for older people in Scotland from 1980 to 1999. The total number of dwellings has increased over time, from 10,444 in 1980 to 95,696 in 1999. Since 1980 the number of sheltered housing dwellings has increased five-fold. In 1999, other dwellings with alarms accounted for 39 per cent of total dwellings followed closely by sheltered housing with 37 per cent of the total.

Table 1.10 gives a breakdown of the different types of special needs dwellings within each local authority.

In 1999, Clackmannanshire had the highest rate of very sheltered housing (12) per 1,000 of the population aged 65 and over. This accounted for 7 per cent of their total special needs housing stock, the highest proportion of all local authorities. In contrast, seven local authorities had no dwellings within the very sheltered category. The rate for Scotland was 2 per 1,000 of the population aged 65 and over.

Dundee City had the highest number of sheltered dwellings (159) per 1,000 of the population aged 65 and over. At the same time the Scotland total was 47, whilst the Orkney Islands had only 14 dwellings per 1,000 of the population aged 65 and over. Ninety six per cent of Eileanan Siar's housing stock was in the sheltered dwellings category. Meanwhile in North Ayrshire only 16 per cent of their stock fell within this category.

Table 1.10: Special Needs Housing for Older People provided by Public Agencies and Housing Associations, 1999

Local Authority	Very Sheltered		Sheltered			Amenity ^3,4	Other Dwellings with Alarms	Total Dwellings	Rate per 1,000 Pop'n aged 65+
	Number	Rate per 1,000 Pop'n aged 65+	Number	Rate per 1,000 aged 65 and Over	Of which Sheltered Wheelchair (no.)



Aberdeen City	94	3.0	2,562	80.5	46	349	1,264	4,269	134.2
Aberdeenshire ¹	320	10.4	2,022	65.8	753	2,698	215	5,255	171.0
Angus	-	-	1,092	59.2	19	225	986	2,303	124.9
Argyll & Bute	29	1.8	590	36.0	42	186	217	1,022	62.4
Clackmannanshire	88	12.4	239	33.7	-	950	-	1,277	180.2
Dumfries & Galloway ²	-	-	696	25.2	20	885	-	1,581	57.2
Dundee City	128	5.0	4,057	159.4	135	170	1,204	5,559	218.5
East Ayrshire	-	-	734	38.2	94	262	469	1,465	76.3
East Dunbartonshire	-	-	336	20.7	54	29	122	487	30.0
East Lothian	28	1.9	452	30.1	7	608	830	1,918	127.8
East Renfrewshire	41	3.1	417	31.5	17	708	123	1,289	97.4
Edinburgh, City of	109	1.6	3,694	53.9	98	811	481	5,095	74.3
Eileanan Siar	-	-	212	41.1	-	8	-	220	42.6
Falkirk	47	2.2	754	35.2	6	969	-	1,770	82.6
Fife	83	1.5	1,887	34.2	52	610	2,240	4,820	87.3
Glasgow City	194	2.1	3,785	41.7	366	875	13,619	18,473	203.7
Highland	6	0.2	799	24.1	11	1,072	234	2,111	63.6
Inverclyde	39	2.9	824	60.3	31	163	679	1,705	124.7
Midlothian	35	3.1	288	25.5	12	193	353	869	77.0
Moray	32	2.4	497	36.5	12	997	212	1,738	127.8
North Ayrshire	25	1.2	668	31.2	48	2,656	700	4,049	189.2
North Lanarkshire	-	-	2,981	66.5	-	1,352	1,966	6,299	140.6
Orkney Islands	-	-	44	13.8	5	79	-	123	38.7
Perth & Kinross ⁴	79	3.2	972	39.8	68	238	1,330	2,619	107.2
Renfrewshire	30	1.2	733	28.5	18	541	911	2,215	86.0
Scottish Borders	69	3.4	995	49.5	5	584	1,432	3,080	153.3
Shetland Islands	25	8.4	288	96.8	2	4	341	658	221.2
South Ayrshire	8	0.4	789	37.8	14	262	568	1,627	78.0
South Lanarkshire	19	0.4	1,645	38.0	83	594	4,347	6,605	152.7
Stirling	20	1.6	452	35.1	10	613	354	1,439	111.8
West Dunbartonshire	25	1.8	456	31.9	4	239	969	1,689	118.3
West Lothian	47	2.8	748	44.3	748	286	986	2,067	122.3
Scotland	1,620	2.1	36,708	46.8	2,780	20,216	37,152	95,696	121.9

¹ Figures from 1998 used as 1999 returns are outstanding.
² Figures from 1997 used as 1998 and 1999 returns are outstanding.
³ Dwellings are adapted to suit particular needs of tenants, so numbers in these categories may rise or fall from year to year.
⁴ Perth & Kinross Council are unable to separately identify local authority amenity and other dwellings which have alarms. The figure given for amenity housing in Perth & Kinross relates to Housing Association dwellings only. The figure given for other dwellings with alarms includes all local authority amenity dwellings.
Source: SEDD Housing Statistics - S1B Return

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