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Last updated:
23 January 2026
Inquiry into Public Administration - Effective Scottish Government decision-making
What are the capabilities and skills necessary for civil servants to support effective decision making, and in what ways could these be developed further?
What are the behaviours and culture that promote effective decision-making?
SPICe briefings
Date published:
6 January 2026
SPICe Bill Summaries - Session 6 - July 2024 to June 2025 - Scottish Leids Bill
The provisions in thon chaipter include:
Scots haein official staunin in Scotland
requirin Scottish Ministers tae furthset a Scots leid straitegy and tae report on ony progress makkit
providin that Scottish Ministers can pit thegither guidance fur public bodies anent forderin and uphaudin the Scots leid and the development o Scots culture.
Pairt 2 – Chaipte...
Committee reports
Date published:
17 December 2025
Stage 1 Report on the Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Bill - Register of Foster Carers
The Scottish Government notes that proposals will not change the approval process of foster carers and placement of looked after children and that its objectives in creating a register are to enhance safeguarding, support the professional recognition of foster carers, support the mobility of foster carers, support better respite arrangements, provide robust national data on foster carers to inform recruitment and policy development...
Committee reports
Date published:
17 December 2025
Stage 1 Report on the Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Bill - The Language of Care
Scotland's proposal that the Bill should include a duty to develop regulations that define care experience, with public bodies having to pay 'due regard' to this duty, in order to promote rights-based practice and be inclusive of all care types.
Committee reports
Date published:
17 December 2025
Stage 1 Report on the Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Bill - Potential implications of proposed changes
The steps that we are taking are timeous and proportionate and will give us time to develop the work and get it right, which, [....] is my priority.viScottish Parliament. (2025, 5 November) Official Report of the Education, Children and Young People Committee.
Committee reports
Date published:
10 December 2025
Contract (Formation and Remedies) (Scotland) Bill at Stage 1 - Retention
Cols 40 and 44
Referring to recent case law, Lorna Richardson, who Professor MacQueen suggested was the “principal inspiration” behind this proposed change, argued that there are “cogent reasons for now making changes to the law of retention given judicial developments and difficulties with this remedy since the date of the SLC’s Report.”viWritten evidence....
Committee reports
Date published:
19 November 2025
Stage 1 report on the Children (Withdrawal from Religious Education and Amendment of UNCRC Compatibility Duty) (Scotland) Bill - Conflation between RO and RME
In her response she set out the rationale behind the approach:
The accompanying documents for the Bill are clear that RO and RME are two distinct aspects of school education, with RO supporting pupils’ spiritual development and building a sense of community, and RME helping pupils learn about and from different religions and belief groups, as well as explor...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
4 November 2025
SPICe Bill Summaries - Session 6 - July 2023 to June 2024 - Trusts and Succession (Scotland) Bill
Purpose and objectives of the Bill
This technical Bill was developed from recommendations of the Scottish Law Commission.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
28 October 2025
Scotland's water industry: overview of regulation and key challenges - 4.3.2 Economic regulation
Box 2: Why is there a need for economic regulation of Scottish Water?
The development of the water industry in Scotland has given rise to Scottish Water as a 'natural monopoly'.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
15 September 2025
The Children (Withdrawal from Religious Education and Amendment of UNCRC Compatibility Duty) (Scotland) Bill - Religious observance and education
It is described in Scottish Government Guidance on Religious Observance as:
Community acts which aim to promote the spiritual development of all members of the school's community and express and celebrate the shared values of the school community.2Scottish Government. (2017, March 30).
