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The Committee draws the Scottish Government's attention to the suggestion made by several stakeholders, that a register which captures only those who have been de-registered as foster carers, rather than a wider register of all foster carers, may be desirable.
It was pointed out that Ministers might have medical conditions that they did not want to share with people and that the introduction of a barrier could result in de facto discrimination against those who could not participate.
As I pointed to in my letter, as recently as May 2021 the EHRC was describing gender recognition reform as one of its key policy priorities, saying that “a de-medicalised system to change legal sex will better support trans people to live their lives free from discrimination”.
In our last budget scrutiny letter prior to the pandemic, we sought further information from the Cabinet Secretary on how the following issues (and more) would be addressed in the local government budget settlement:
Its plans to provide more concrete information on multi-year settlements and its response to concerns in relation to de-coupling revenue from c...
On 25 March 2008 the Commission on Scottish Devolution was formally announced by the then Secretary of State for Scotland, Des Browne MP (the proposal for the Commission had received the UK Government's support in January 2008).
2.2 Human Resources and Training
The availability of skilled, knowledgeable staff is important for policy implementation.1Lucidarme, S., Marlier, M., Cardon, G., De Bourdeaudhuij, I., & Willem, A. (2014).
There is no key performance indicator on committee impact factor—yet. Is effectiveness measured by how many amendments the committee makes to a bill or how many reports it publishes?