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Feedback I have received from the Committee during 2025/26 has been positive, and the improvements are being embedded within SPPA’s governance arrangements.
Belgrade principles on the relationship between national human rights institutions and parliaments (Belgrade, 22–23 February 2012) 3 Inter-Parliamentary Union and the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (2016), Human Rights: Handbook for Parliamentarians no.26. 4 In line with these principles, the SHRC monitors parliamentary proceedings and provide...
Social isolation and loneliness In the most recent iteration of the Scottish Health Survey, 26% of over 65s reported they had 5 felt lonely either most/all of the time or some of the time within the past week.
We are reviewing the public sector equality duty, doing the equality data improvement project and the mainstreaming work: those all work together to make all the changes that we need to see.” 26. The Minister expressed an openness to ideas on how data collection and disaggregation can be improved, and concluded: “We are of the belief that the data needs to ...
It is about balancing the harms and, as the cabinet secretary said, ensuring that the safety of everybody who lives in, works in or visits the prisons is at the front of our minds.