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Official Report Meeting date: 15 June 2017

Public Petitions Committee 15 June 2017

Recently, we received allegations about three of our clubs—Queens Park FC, Dundee FC and Stirling Albion FC—that involved a failure to pay the national minimum wage.
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Care homes 40 Visits to or by care home residents (1) The Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 is modified as follows. 25 (2A) After section 78 insert— “Regulations under section 78: visits to and by adult care home residents 78A Identification of Essential Care Supporter (1) The Scottish Ministers must exercise the power under section 78(2) to impose a duty on providers of care home services for adults to— 30 (a) identify for every resident of accommodation provided by the care home service at least one individual as an Essential Care Supporter, unless— (i) doing so would be contrary to the resident’s wishes, or (ii) nobody can be identified who is able and willing to be the resident’s Essential Care Supporter, and 35 (b) maintain a record of the Essential Care Supporters identified. 10 Care Reform (Scotland) Bill Part 3—Reforms connected to delivery and regulation of care (2) The Scottish Ministers must set out in regulations under section 78(2)— (a) the criteria to be applied in determining who a resident’s Essential Care Supporter is, and (b) the consultative process with the resident and others by which that 5 determination is to be made. (3) The duty described by subsection (1) must be framed so that a provider of a care home service must have regard to the code published under section 78C in carrying out the duty. 78B Right to visits: care home residents 10 (1) The Scottish Ministers must exercise the power under section 78(2) to impose 1 a duty on providers of care home services for adults to facilitate visits— (a) to residents of accommodation provided by the care home service (“internal visits”), (b) by residents of accommodation provided by the care home service 15 (“external visits”). (2) The duty must be framed so that a provider of a care home service may only suspend visits (specifically or generally) if the provider has reasonable cause to believe that it is essential to do so to prevent a serious risk to the life, health or wellbeing of— 20 (a) in the case of internal visits, persons at the accommodation, (b) in the case of external visits (either or both)— (i) persons at the accommodation, or (ii) persons at the place where the visit would take place, but for the suspension. 25 (3) The duty must also be framed so that, where a provider of a care home service has suspended visits due to a serious risk of a kind described in subsection (2), the provider must take all reasonable steps to eliminate or substantially mitigate the risk so that the suspension of visits can be lifted as soon as practicable. 30 (4) The duty must also be framed so that, even in cases where a provider of a care home service has reasonable cause to believe that suspending visits is essential to prevent a serious risk, the provider must continue to facilitate visits to or by a resident if— (a) either— 35 (i) the provider has reasonable cause to believe that, before the suspension of visits is lifted, the resident will have— (A) died, or (B) undergone, or begun to undergo, a significant deterioration in physical or mental condition, or 11 Care Reform (Scotland) Bill Part 3—Reforms connected to delivery and regulation of care (ii) the provider has reasonable cause to believe that— (A) the suspension of visits is causing, or is likely to cause, serious harm to the resident’s health or wellbeing, and (B) that harm outweighs the serious risk, and 5 (b) the resident and the person visiting, or being visited by, the resident agree to take any action or precaution that the provider reasonably considers would mitigate the serious risk to any extent (other than a negligible one). (5) The duty must also be framed so as to create a presumption that the suspension 10 of visits to a resident by the resident’s Essential Care Supporter is likely to 1 cause serious harm to the resident’s health or wellbeing. (6) Subsection (4) does not preclude the duty from being framed so as to include other circumstances in which visits to or by a resident must continue to be facilitated. 15 (7) The duty must also be framed so that a provider of a care home service must have regard to the code published under section 78C in carrying out the duty. (8) Facilitating external visits, as mentioned in subsection (1), does not entail a provider of a care home service— (a) taking, or accompanying, a resident somewhere outwith accommodation 20 provided by the care home service, or (b) arranging or paying for someone else to do so. 78BA Further provision to be made in connection with sections 78A and 78B (1) The Scottish Ministers must exercise the power under section 78(2) to impose a duty on the providers of care home services for adults to— 25 (a) review, following a valid request, its decision about the suspension of internal or external visits, (b) notify SCSWIS when the provider suspends internal or external visits. (2) The duties described by subsection (1) must be framed— (a) to define what constitutes a valid request to a provider for the purposes 30 of the duty, (b) so that a provider of a care home service must have regard to the code published under section 78C in carrying out the duties. (3) Subsection (1)(b) does not preclude the duty from being framed so as to create exceptions to the requirement to notify SCSWIS in relation to the suspension 35 of internal or external visits. (4) In this section— (a) references to internal and external visits are to be construed in accordance with section 78B(1), (b) references to suspending them cover doing so specifically or generally. 12 Care Reform (Scotland) Bill Part 3—Reforms connected to delivery and regulation of care 78C Code of practice on care home residents’ right to visits (1) The Scottish Ministers must prepare a code of practice providing guidance on fulfilling the duties imposed in accordance with sections 78A(1), 78B(1) and 78BA(1). 5 (2) The code must provide that in fulfilling those duties the following are to be treated as paramount considerations— (a) the importance to residents of visits in— (i) promoting their dignity, (ii) promoting their physical and mental health and emotional 10 wellbeing, and 1 (iii) realising their human rights, (b) the importance of recognising and supporting the vital role that people who are not care home staff (for example close relatives and friends) play, alongside staff, in providing their loved ones with regular care 15 (including companionship, personal support and advocacy). (3) The code may— (a) provide guidance on how to— (i) implement an effective visiting policy, (ii) adapt personal care plans to include residents’ visiting preferences 20 or requirements, (iii) communicate timeously in writing with those affected about any change to visiting arrangements including the reasons for the change, (b) set out what the Scottish Ministers consider constitutes best practice in— 25 (i) facilitating visits, (ii) care home staff working collaboratively with residents and their friends and families to facilitate visits in the way that best supports residents’ needs, (c) give examples of— 30 (i) the means which providers could use to eliminate or mitigate a serious risk of a kind described in section 78B(2), (ii) factors which may be taken into account in making an assessment about whether the harm caused to a resident in suspending visits outweighs the risk, 35 (d) any other guidance relating to fulfilling the duties mentioned in subsection (1) that the Scottish Ministers consider appropriate. (4) The Scottish Ministers must— (a) publish the code in a manner that is accessible to the public within the period of one year beginning with the day on which this section comes 40 into force, 13 Care Reform (Scotland) Bill Part 3—Reforms connected to delivery and regulation of care (b) review and, if they consider it appropriate, prepare and publish a new version of the code in such manner as they consider appropriate by the end of each review period, and (c) take such steps as they consider appropriate to promote awareness of 5 the code to providers of care home services for adults. (4A) In carrying out a review of the code, the Scottish Ministers must— (a) have particular regard to any representations that have been made to them about the most recent version of the code by— (i) providers of care home services for adults and their staff, 10 (ii) the residents of accommodation provided by those services, 1 (iii) those residents’ family, friends and other visitors, and (b) invite, and take into account, views from SCSWIS on— (i) whether, since the most recent version of the code was published— (A) any trends have emerged in the suspension of internal or 15 external visits (see section 78B(1)), (B) it has identified any areas of concern, or examples of good practice, in relation to the discharge of the duties imposed in accordance with sections 78A(1), 78B(1) and 78BA(1), (C) meaningful regard is being had to the code by the providers 20 of adult care home services, (ii) what changes to the code would be appropriate. (5) Before publishing any version of the code, the Scottish Ministers must consult— (a) SCSWIS, (b) Public Health Scotland, 25 (c) such persons, or groups of persons, who they consider represent the interests of— (i) providers of care home services for adults, (ii) the residents of accommodation provided by such care home services, and 30 (iii) the families of such residents. (5A) When the Scottish Ministers publish a version of the code, they must also publish an adaptation of that version of the code designed to be understood by people with learning difficulties or other conditions affecting how they process information. 35 (6) In this section, “review period” means the period of 5 years beginning with which the latest version of the code was published. the day on 78D Interpretation of sections 78A to 78C In sections 78A to 78C— “care home service for adults” has the meaning given in section 82F, 14 Care Reform (Scotland) Bill Part 3—Reforms connected to delivery and regulation of care “Essential Care Supporter”, in relation to a resident of accommodation provided by a care home service, means the individual recorded as the resident’s Essential Care Supporter in fulfilment of the duty imposed in accordance with section 78A(1), 5 “provider”, in relation to a care home service, is to be construed in accordance with the definition of “provide” in section 105. 78E Review of operation of duties imposed in accordance with sections 78A to 78BA (1) The Scottish Ministers must prepare, and make publicly available, a report on 10 the operation of the duties imposed on providers of care home services for 1 adults in accordance with sections 78A(1), 78B(1) and 78BA(1). (2) The duty under subsection (1) must be fulfilled within 2 years of this section coming into force.”.
Last updated: 2 April 2026

Dudhope Young Peoples Inpatient Unit NHS Tayside Joint Inspection Visit Report

The joint report by Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) and the Mental Welfare Commission (MWC) (published on 26 February) relates to an unannounced inspection of Dudhope as part of the Joint CAMHS Safe Delivery of Care Inspection and Visit programme.
Official Report Meeting date: 11 December 2024

Meeting of the Parliament 11 December 2024

Planning will play its part, but an awful lot of housing units already have planning permission but have not been built.Budget 2025-26 (Public Services Support) Budget 2025-26 (Public Services Support) To ask the Scottish Government how its 2025-26 budget will support public ...
Last updated: 19 December 2024

Shetland afternoon report

2 5th Anniversary Regional Day Latha Roinneil 25mh Ceann-bliadhna A community conversation Hosted by Voluntary Action Shetland Monday 26 August 2024 Islesburgh Community Centre Introduction As part of our activities to mark the Parliament’s 25th anniversary, we visited the Highlands and Islands region to meet with l...
SPICe briefings Date published: 28 October 2022

Scottish Parliament Statistics 2019-2020 - 4.3.19. Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee

Convener: Bill Kidd Deputy Convener: Mark Ruskell Membership: The committee has 7 members. Committee meetingsThere were 26 meetings in the parliamentary year.NumberTotal meetings of the Committee26Meetings held wholly in private5Meetings held partly in private20Joint meetings with other Committees0Meetings held outside the Parliament0Meetings held remotely by video conference (from 21 April 2020)0Committee membersMembersPartyNumber of meetings attended (possible total)Neil Findlay (from 10 September 2019)Lab20(21)Jamie Halcro JohnstonCon21(26)Bill KiddSNP26(26)Tom Mason (until 25 February 2020)Con21(22)Gil PatersonSNP23(26)Mark RuskellGreen24(26)Elaine Smith (until 5 September 2019)Lab4(5)Alexander Stewart (from 25 February 2020)Con4(4)Maureen WattSNP25(26)Substitute committee membersSubstitute MembersPartyNumber of meetings attendedSarah Boyack (from 25 September 2019)Lab0John FinnieGreen0Rhoda Grant (until 10 September 2019)Lab0Liam Kerr (from 25 February 2020)Con0Gordon MacDonaldSNP1Edward Mountain (18 September 2019 - 25 February 2020)Con1Anas Sarwar (10 September 2019 - 25 September 2019)Lab0John Scott (until 18 September 2019)Con1Reporters: None Committee Clerk: Katy Orr Advisers: None Visits: None Events: None WitnessesThe following witnesses were called to give oral evidenceCategoryNumberScottish Government Ministers8Scottish Government officials20Members of the Scottish Parliament1Representatives of public bodies20Representatives of local authorities0UK Ministers0UK Government officials0Members of the UK Parliament0Representatives from other legislatures0Representatives of trade unions0Representatives of professional associations1Representatives of voluntary sector3Other categories of witnesses3Business transactedBusinessNoDetailsInquiries2Committee Bill to amend the process for complaints against MSPs;Committee Bill on financial assistance for opposition partiesConsultations2Scottish Elections (Reform) Bill;Scottish Elections (Franchise and Representation) BillProposed Members’ Bills considered0Draft Bills considered(Pre-legislative discussion)0Bills considered0Post-legislative scrutiny - Acts considered0Legislative Consent Memorandums0Public Body Act Consent Memorandums0SI consent notifications considered0SIs considered0SSIs considered53 draft affirmatives;1 made affirmative;1 negative: SSI 2019/408Petitions considered0Divisions held1916 January 2020: Scottish Elections (Franchise and Representation) Bill stage 2, amendments 1, 7, 8, 9, 9A, 9B, 9C, 9D, 9E, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27Plenary debates110 December 2019: S5M-20144ReportsTitleSP Paper numberDate of publicationGovernment response5th Report, 2020 (Session 5): The Representation of the People (Annual Canvass) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations71120 March 2020No Response4th Report, 2020 (Session 5): The Representation of the People (Annual Canvass) Amendment (Scotland) Order 2020 [draft]6715 February 2020No Response3rd Report, 2020 (Session 5): The Representation of the People (Data Matching) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 [draft]6705 February 2020No Response2nd Report, 2020 (Session 5): Proposal for a Committee Bill - Scottish Parliament (Assistance for Political Parties) Bill6695 February 2020No Response1st Report, 2020 (Session 5): Stage 1 Report on the Scottish Elections (Reform) Bill65614 January 202030 January 202016th Report, 2019 (Session 5): Code of Conduct for MSPs - proposed revisions to implement the recommendations contained in the Joint Working Group's Report on Sexual Harassment and Sexist Behaviour6373 December 2019No Response15th Report, 2019 (Session 5): The Representation of the People Act 1983 Remedial (Scotland) Order 201962314 November 201920 November 201914th Report, 2019 (Session 5): Stage 1 Report on the Scottish Elections (Franchise and Representations) Bill62213 November 201922 November 201913th Report, 2019 (Session 5): Complaint against Rachael Hamilton MSP56827 June 2019n/a12th Report, 2019 (Session 5): Standing Order rule changes53222 May 2019No Response11th Report, 2019 (Session 5): Annual Report 2018-1953121 May 2019n/a
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