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HUB for SUCCESS expressed concerns about how care experience will be recognised for those without formal documentation, or whose experiences occurred in informal or unrecorded settings, noting that the Bill mus...
Committee reports
Date published:
17 December 2025
meeting=16634
The Fostering Network and COSLA expressed concern that potential loopholes may still exist despite stronger reporting requirements for charities under section 9.xviScottish Parliament. (2025, September).
Committee reports
Date published:
30 September 2025
However, Dr Chris Provan from the Royal College of General Practitioners Scotland expressed his support for the definition contained in the Bill and for the decision of Liam McArthur not to include a prognostic timescale within that definition:
The definition is not one of the areas that we have significant concerns about, because it appears to cover much o...
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Some contributors, including Barry Black, the Royal Society of Biology and the Stirling Centre for Research into Curriculum Making expressed concern that the Bill does not include any provision in relation to Education Scotland or set out how the bodies will relat...
Committee reports
Date published:
15 November 2024
meeting=16034 [accessed 24 October 2024]
Several respondents raised concerns regarding the absence of a dedicated National Outcome on gender equality, suggesting that, despite improvements in integrating gendered considerations across the Outcomes, the lack of a dedicated Outcome on gender equality misses an opportunity to achieve greater alignment with the SDGs and weakens the focus on gender-specific issues. Some such as the SWBG expressed...
In its response, Police Scotland confirmed that whilst regulation 9 does not expressly prevent running parallel misconduct investigations, through existing legislative provisions “Police Scotland must follow the lawful instruction of an appropriate prosecutor”. They added that “CAAPD have expressed reservations about the use of material gathered during crim...
The Policy Memorandum states that the duty of candour does not infringe on the right to silence or privilege against self-incrimination, explaining that—
“As is clear from the way in which the duty is expressed and implemented, it is subject to the specific protections of the general law, which includes the right to silence and the privilege against self-in...
When a person has submitted to Ministers a suitable note expressing an intention on the part of the person, or another person, to register a community interest in the land (called a “note of intention to register”).