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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.
For example, the Committee heard from a woman who had to use savings to pay for legal fees that had been set aside for kinship care arrangements, and from another woman whose depletion of savings meant she had no money left to purchase clothes for her children.Key themes from lived experience engagement with members of Scottish Women's Aid Survivor Reference Group: 26 March
Following the introduction of the Bill, the Committee held a roundtable discussion with key stakeholders on 26 March 2025 and an evidence session with the Minister for Victims and Community Safety on 23 April 2025.
As part of its inquiry, the Committee met with members of Scottish Women's Aid's Survivor Reference Group (SRG) on 26 March 2025. This meeting was an opportunity for Members of the Committee to discuss the call for views on the inquiry with the SRG, and to consider the specific questions participants thought were most significant.
The Committee's work in this area has included written correspondence and taking formal evidence from key stakeholders, including an evidence session with FMPG on 26 November 2024 and with Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd (CMAL) on 7 January 2025.
The DPLR Committee considered the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exclusions and Exceptions) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2025 [draft] on 26 November 2024 and reported on it in its 70th Report, 2024.
Reducing drug deaths in Scotland and tackling problem drug use
On 26 September 2023, 2 November 2023, and 1 May 2024, Members of the Criminal Justice, Health, Social Care and Sport, and Social Justice and Social Security committees held joint evidence sessions to consider the progress made on the implementation of the recommendations of the Scottish Drug D...