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Retrieved from https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-recommended-allowance-for-foster-and-kinship-carers-information-for-carers-and-professionals/:
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Fostering and kinship care organisations have called for the payments to rise annually with inflation.3The Fostering Network. (2024, July). News...
Committee reports
Date published:
18 December 2024
The Committee was told that the administration of the proposed new eligibility condition to the scheme would be delivered "without significant IT change".
The current work of the Scottish Government
In September 2024's Programme for Government, the Scottish Government announced new legislation to amend the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 (the 2000 Act).
She went on to say:
What concerns us particularly is that, even when new graduates apply for posts, they stay for a very short duration and tend to leave after two years.
Committee reports
Date published:
16 September 2024
The need for 'champions'
Witnesses also told the Committee that one of the drivers for creating new supported bodies was that groups are looking for a ‘champion’ to give prominence to specific issues or rights, particularly when they can see the perceived benefits of similar bodies across the UK, and those in Scotland which represent other groups of societ...
The role of applicant choice in accepting preventative measures or choosing to seek a new settled option through a homelessness application is also not clear.
A full list of reports and briefings considered by the Committee during the reporting year is as follows:
Section 22 reports
The 2021/22 audit of Ferguson Marine Port Glasgow (Holdings) Limited
The 2022/23 audit of NHS Forth Valley
The 2022/23 audit of the Scottish Government Consolidated Accounts
The 2022/23 audit of the Scottish Prison Service
The 2021/22 audit of South Lanarkshire College
The 2021/22 audit of Scottish Canals
The 2022/23 audit of the Water Industry Commission in Scotland
Section 23 reports
New...
The SPFA explained how it already engages in a range of data collection and scientific sampling to inform scientific assessments and suggested REM would “not add anything new” to these.
In oral evidence, the SFF stated:
The impacts are spoken about very much in terms of “could”, “may” and “in the future”, so it is what you might describe as jam tomorrow.
Firstly it amends the International Organisations (Immunities and Privileges) (Scotland) Order 2009 by adding a new schedule 1B to give effect to the obligations relating to immunities and privileges contained within the agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Space Agency concerning the European Space Agency’s Sites and Facilities in the Unit...