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Scottish Community Care Statistics 2000

Special Needs Housing

Tables 4.5 and 4.6 contain information on special needs housing for disabled people. This may include some people who have learning disabilities, but the majority of clients receiving this service are physically disabled. For definitions on which the data are collected, please refer to the notes in annex A.

Table 4.5: Special Needs Housing for Disabled People provided by Public Agencies and Housing Associations¹, 1980 - 2000²

¹ Excludes those already counted as housing for the elderly.
Disabled people includes people with all disabilities not just physical disabilities
In Local Authorities where no returns have been received the previous years figure has been used
² Please note the figures have changed from previous publications to take into account updated returns and previous errors in the way the Special Needs Housing has been counted.

Source: SEDD Housing Statistics - S1B Return

Table 4.5 shows the number of different types of special needs housing for disabled people from 1980 to 2000.

Some variation in the figures over time may be due to re-classification by some Local Authorities

Table 4.6: Sheltered Housing Dwellings for Disabled People Provided by Public Agencies and Housing Associations 2000¹

¹ Disabled People includes people with all disabilities, not just physically disabled people.
² Figures from 1999 used as 2000 returns are outstanding.
³ Please note the rates refer to total dwellings per 1000 population aged 16-64 and not the bed spaces within these dwellings and therefore need to be interpreted with caution.

Source: SEDD Housing Statistics - S1B Return

Table 4.6 shows the number of special needs housing dwellings for disabled people in each local authority.

In Scotland as a whole almost half (49 per cent) of the 23,726 dwellings are for the ambulant disabled while only 12 per cent are wheelchair housing. In 5 local authorities wheelchair housing is the only type of dwelling; East Ayrshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, North Lanarkshire and South Ayrshire. In contrast, 92 per cent of the dwellings in Glasgow are for ambulant disabled and in Dundee City 95 per cent are other specially adapted dwellings.

Dundee City has the highest number of dwellings (48) for disabled people for every 1,000 of the population aged between 16 and 64. The rate for Scotland is 7 dwellings for physically disabled people for every 1,000 of the population aged between 16 and 64.

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