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One member of staff has been supported to gain an MBA over the last five years, and
An MBA qualification was not a pre-requisite for individuals to be considered for senior positions, but it was seen as desirable, particularly for more technical roles.
Committee reports
Date published:
15 November 2024
Section 2(2): Power to provide for care experience assistance in regulations
Power conferred on: The Scottish Ministers
Power exercisable by: Regulations made by Scottish Statutory Instrument
Parliamentary procedure: Affirmative
Revised or new power: Unchanged, though subject to additional pre-laying requirements
Provision
Section 2 of the Bill inserts a ne...
The Bill and the increased ambition in emission reduction targets was essentially a response to the 2015 Paris climate agreement and the international commitment to ‘pursue efforts’ to limit global temperature rises to 1.5C, and to keep them ‘well below’ 2.0C above those recorded in pre-industrial times.
The Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform (ECCL...
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Others, especially those with alcohol dependence who were also financially vulnerable, reported needing to use pre-existing harmful strategies more often, such as reducing spending on food and, for those who wer...
Whilst long-term progress has been made with recycling towards the target of 70% by 2025 (from 52% in 2011 to 61% in 2018), progress has also somewhat flatlined over the past few years of available data, and according to 2021 figures has fallen to pre-2015 levels (see Figure 8 below).
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The Permanent Secretary noted that workforce control has been established following the Scottish Government’s plan to return the total size of the devolved public sector workforce to around pre...
Eann Sinclair from Highlands and Islands Enterprise explained to the Committee that that model has posed some difficulties for Highland CPP:
In several areas of the Highlands and Islands, we have found locality plans to be less useful, because of the very small communities that we deal with, all of which tend to have expressed similar needs, pre-Covid and d...
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While some Members had a preference for a return to pre-pandemic ways of working, other Members perceived an opportunity for greater flexibility which could help support the Parliament become more accessible and inclusive.