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The Policy Memorandum accompanying the Bill also describes how the detail of the proposed National Care Service will be developed through a process of co-design involving a range of key stakeholders including those with lived and living experience of receiving social care.
The Regulations
The Cost of Living (Tenant) Protection (Scotland) Act 2022 gives the Scottish Ministers temporary power to cap rents for private and social tenants, as well as for student accommodation.
Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Bill
The Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Bill was considered in the Scottish Parliament as an emergency bill and as a consequence there was no opportunity for formal consideration of the Bill by the Committee.
They also met informally with people with lived experience of fuel poverty, to explore issues relevant to disabled people, single parents and those living in rural and island communities.
Serving of a DAPN on an individual still living in a family home
In her evidence to the Committee, DCS McCluskey told us that Police Scotland “… cannot actually envisage a set of circumstances in which we would serve a notice on an individual who was still living in the family home.
Consumer Scotland's role in relation to vulnerable consumers
Section 6(4) of the Bill would require Consumer Scotland to have regard to the interests of vulnerable consumers
The definition of vulnerable consumers includes:
people who are sick or disabled;
older people;
people with low incomes; and
people who have fewer consumer options because of where they live - including those who live in remote rural and island communities.
Committee reports
Date published:
12 November 2018
Scottish Government's 2020 vision
In September 2011, in recognition of the challenges facing health and social care, the Scottish Government set out an ambitious vision to enable everyone to live longer, healthier lives at home or in a homely setting by 2020.