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Scottish Community Care Statistics 2000

Special Needs Housing

Tables 1.10 and 1.11 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 1.10: Special Needs Housing for the Elderly provided by Public Agencies and Housing Associations, 1980-2000^1,3

	1980	1985	1990	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000²
Very Sheltered	n/a	n/a	n/a	671	719	913	1,144	1,389	1,665
Sheltered (not wheelchair)	8,257	18,521	27,992	31,897	32,908	33,345	33,232	32,561	33,737
Sheltered Wheelchair	219	611	1,310	1,790	2,068	2,139	2,864	2,191	1,654
Amenity2	2,782	6,134	14,224	19,013	18,535	16,883	17,245	16,751	16,905
Other Dwellings with Alarms²	..	..	..	23,121	27,769	32,363	35,634	37,130	37,437
All Dwellings	11,258	25,266	43,526	76,492	81,999	85,643	90,119	90,022	91,398
No. of Dwellings per 1000 Pop'n aged 65 and over	16	34	57	98	105	110	115	115	116

¹In Local Authorities where no returns have been received the previous years figure has been used
²Dwellings are adapted to suit particular needs of tenants, so numbers in these categories may rise or fall from year to year
³Please note the figures have changed from previous publications to take into account updated returns and previous errors in the way Special Needs Housing has been counted.

Source: SEDD Housing Statistics - S1B Return

Table 1.10 presents the number of special needs housing dwellings for older people in Scotland from 1980 to 2000. The total number of dwellings has increased over time, from 11,258 in 1980 to 91,398 in 2000. In 2000, all types of sheltered housing accounted for 41% of all special needs housing. Other dwellings with alarms also accounted for 41 per cent of the total with the remainder made up by amenity housing.

Table 1.11 gives a breakdown of the different types of special needs dwellings within each local authority.

In 2000, Clackmannanshire had the highest rate of very sheltered housing, 12.4 per 1,000 of the population aged 65 and over. This accounted for 7 per cent of their total special needs housing stock. In contrast, 3 local authorities had no dwellings within the very sheltered category. The rate for Scotland was 2.1 per 1,000 of the population aged 65 and over.

Dundee City had the highest rate of sheltered dwellings, 156.9 per 1,000 of the population aged 65 and over. At the same time the Scotland rate was 45, whilst the Orkney Islands had only 13.7 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 Clackmannanshire only 19 per cent of their stock fell within this category.

Table 1.11: Special Needs Housing for the Elderly provided by Public Agencies and Housing Associations , 2000

	Very Sheltered		Sheltered			Amenity^2,	Other dwellings with alarms	Total
	Number	Rate per 1,000 aged 65 and over	not wheelchair	with wheelchair	Rate per 1,000 aged 65 and over	Amenity^2,	Other dwellings with alarms	Number	Rate per 1,000 aged 65 and over⁴
Aberdeen City	95	3.0	2,510	46	80.4	369	1,241	4,261	134.0
Aberdeenshire	50	1.6	1,831	132	63.1	2,649	193	4,855	156.0
Angus	27	1.5	1,104	19	60.8	232	1,009	2,391	129.5
Argyll & Bute	29	1.8	490	100	35.8	80	167	866	52.6
Clackmannanshire	88	12.4	239	-	33.6	961	-	1,288	180.8
Dumfries & Galloway	87	3.1	621	18	22.9	873	-	1,599	57.4
Dundee City	162	6.4	3,838	135	156.9	168	1,146	5,449	215.2
East Ayrshire	21	1.1	647	15	34.2	209	2,098	2,990	154.4
East Dunbartonshire	-	-	281	60	20.6	143	180	664	40.0
East Lothian	28	1.9	445	7	30.0	606	773	1,859	123.6
East Renfrewshire	41	3.1	400	17	31.0	417	420	1,295	96.3
Edinburgh, City of	109	1.6	3,623	98	54.6	811	454	5,095	74.8
Eileanan Siar	-	-	203	-	39.5	8	-	211	41.1
Falkirk	47	2.2	748	6	35.0	969	-	1,770	82.1
Fife	88	1.6	1,861	52	34.4	610	2,382	4,993	89.8
Glasgow City	203	2.3	3,927	366	48.0	860	12,402	17,758	198.6
Highland	10	0.3	965	7	29.0	227	234	1,443	43.0
Inverclyde	39	2.9	393	75	34.5	104	221	832	61.3
Midlothian	35	3.1	276	12	25.3	192	430	945	82.9
Moray¹	32	2.3	485	12	36.2	997	212	1,738	126.6
North Ayrshire	25	1.2	620	48	31.1	1,323	700	2,716	126.4
North Lanarkshire	44	1.0	1,424	166	35.1	687	2,146	4,467	98.5
Orkney Islands	-	-	39	5	13.7	79	-	123	38.4
Perth & Kinross³	115	4.7	868	68	38.0	238	828	2,117	86.0
Renfrewshire	46	1.8	712	18	28.2	510	855	2,141	82.6
Scottish Borders, The	67	3.3	1,014	5	50.4	585	1,432	3,103	153.4
Shetland Islands	25	8.3	286	2	95.6	5	70	388	128.7
South Ayrshire	8	0.4	777	14	37.7	262	568	1,629	77.7
South Lanarkshire	60	1.4	1,542	55	36.8	587	4,907	7,151	164.8
Stirling	20	1.5	442	10	35.0	603	369	1,444	111.7
West Dunbartonshire	34	2.4	468	10	33.8	255	994	1,761	124.6
West Lothian	30	1.7	658	76	42.8	286	1,006	2,056	119.9
SCOTLAND	1,665	2.1	33,737	1,654	45.0	16,905	37,437	91,398	116.1

¹ Figures from 1999 used as 2000 returns are outstanding
² Dwellings are adapted to suit particular needs of tenants, so numbers in these categories may rise or fall from year to year.
³ Perth & Kinross Council are unable to separately identify local authority "amenity" and "other" dwellings which have alarms. As a result the figure given for "amenity" housing in Perth & Kinross relates to Housing Association dwellings only. The figure given for "other dwellings with alarms" also includes local authority amenity dwellings.
⁴ Please note the rates refer to dwellings per 1000 population aged 65 and over and not the bed spaces within these dwellings and
therefore need to be interpreted with caution.

Source: SEDD Housing Statistics - S1B Return

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