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SPICe regularly produces a snapshot of how Scotland is performing against national indicators, which committees can use to review progress (latest version published on 6 March 2023).
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. In New Zealand, in 2016, the Law Society expressed concerns about falling numbers of lawyers willing to take on legal aid work in family cases, with a knock-on effect on access to justice.4RNZ. (2016, August 26).
The membership of the Committee has changed over the parliamentary year as follows—
Jamie Halcro Johnston joined the Committee on 4 September 2025 (replacing Alexander Stewart who left the Committee on 26 June 2025)
Having agreed to take a cumulative approach to budget scrutiny over Session 6, this inquiry followed on from the Committee’s previous pre- budget scrutiny for 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26. The Committee published its report on 21 November 2025.
Policy announcements
The only significant policy announcement on social security was a decision to increase the Scottish Child Payment to £40 per week (it was £27.15 per week in 2025-26) for children under the age of one.
Profit from children's residential services
The FM estimates cost to residential childcare providers of between £800,000 and £3,700,000 over ten years in 2025-26 prices. This is based on the costs of a similar scheme - the Financial Oversight Scheme - in England.