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SLARC also recommended that the leaders of Edinburgh and Glasgow city councils be paid the same as MSPs. Under the new three band structure recommended by SLARC, council leaders in other local authorities would see their pay set as a percentage of MSP pay.
It will be responsible for investment, day-to-day operational delivery and innovations and improvements for passengers, working with publicly-owned rail operators in Wales and Scotland"
The 2024 King’s Speech included a commitment from the new Government to introduce a Railways Bill, which would establish Great British Railways (an organisation that would a...
These include:
the establishment of a new national body called Children's Hearings Scotland with responsibility for the recruitment, appointment and training of the members of children's panels
the replacement of separate children's panels for each local authority with a single national panel.
In its written submission, Amnesty International UK recommended that the proposed new powers for PIRC in relation to complaint handling reviews and calling-in of relevant complaints, could be strengthened by the inclusion of—
“… a presumption that these documents would only be withheld from public scrutiny in exceptional circumstances e.g. to protect the sa...
These include:
the establishment of a new national body called Children's Hearings Scotland with responsibility for the recruitment, appointment and training of the members of children's panels
the replacement of separate children's panels for each local authority with a single national panel.
Ministers' Duties and Pooers
Section 11 pits a new duty on Scottish Ministers tae “forder, facilitate and uphaud” Gaelic education in schuil education and adult education providit by local authorities.
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Have there been changes to (or new) political coalitions, networks, or cross-party collaborations engaging with processes?
Committee reports
Date published:
28 February 2024
This provision also allows for escalation to civil penalty;
46ZB - sets out a procedure for issuing a notice of a civil penalty, which includes notification of intent to do so, the level of penality and the grounds on which it is issued;
46ZC - confers regulation-making powers to the Scottish Ministers to set out further procedures for a civil charging regime including the amount of a civil charge issued;
46ZD - creates a new...
Committee reports
Date published:
28 February 2024
work on which we have been able to make new investment?particularly through the community mental health and wellbeing fund for adults, which is mostly landing in the third sector?