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Residential care (care homes)
A care home is where adults live together and have their care needs met by a team of staff. Staff will be on site 24 hours, 7 days a week. They can also be called residential care homes or nursing homes.
Retrieved from https://www.sfha.co.uk/sites/default/files/2025-07/PDF%20-%20Road%20to%202026%2C%20Homes%20Fit%20for%20the%20Future.pdf [accessed 27 April 2026]
sets out that the food-growing strategy should identify land that may be used as allotment sites and identify other areas that could be used by a community for the growing of vegetables, fruit, herbs or flowers.
Committee reports
Date published:
12 February 2026
They emphasised that a more spatial approach to tree planting, which takes into account the characteristics of specific sites, could deliver a number of co-benefits alongside climate mitigation, such as biodiversity, flood management and soil conservation.
Retrieved from https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20250109172211mp_/https://s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/cloud-platform-e218f50a4812967ba1215eaecede923f/uploads/sites/30/2023/06/Final-digital-assets-report-FOR-WEBSITE-2.pdf [accessed 9 October 2025] made recommendations about how the law in England and Wales could be strengthened to support the ...
In 2025, Scotland achieved the highest ever number of bathing waters rated “Excellent” for water quality; 50 compared with 17 a decade ago, with 97% of sites now achieving sufficient or better quality.
Committee reports
Date published:
30 September 2025
Dr Richardson said Scotland has two key advantages in engineered removals: access to storage sites and the very large availability of renewable energy.iiiNet Zero, Energy and Transport Committee, Official Report, 2 September 2025, col 37
The Cabinet Secretary said that if companies developing negative emissions technologies (NETS) in Scotland are supported ...