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SPICe briefings
Date published:
3 March 2025
Scotland's care system for children and young people: subject profile 2025 update - Foster care allowances
Retrieved from https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/committees/social-justice-and-social-security-committee/correspondence/2024/scottish-recommended-allowance-for-foster-and-kinship-carers-minister-for-children-young-people-and.pdf
Prior to the introduction of SRA, local authorities in Scotland had discretion to set their own rate of allowances.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
18 February 2025
Inheritance law in Scotland - 2025 update - Possible conflicts between different countries' rules of private international law
In particular, some countries or legal systems' rules of private international law make a distinction for some purposes between the type of property at issue when deciding which country's (or part of the UK's) inheritance law should apply to determine who inherits. For example, Scotland takes an approach based on the type of property at issue.1Gretton , G.L...
Committee reports
Date published:
29 January 2025
Instruments considered by the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee during the second quarter of the Parliamentary Year 2024-25 - Overview and analysis
Two instruments were withdrawn and re-laid during this reporting period:
The Funeral Expense Assistance (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2024 (SSI 2024/Draft); and
The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2024 (SI 2024/Draft).
Committee reports
Date published:
17 January 2025
Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland - Background
Background
The 2018 Farmed Fish Health Framework stated that mortality "has many causes and is a primary area of focus for fish farming businesses” and recognised the “deterioration (in the years to and including 2017) in farmed fish survival in Scotland”. The Farmed Fish Health Framework set out the Scottish Government's commitment to “ensure that the ind...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
14 January 2025
Scottish Leids Bill: consideration afore Stage 3 - 2022 Census
Fur baith Scots and Gaelic, there has been growth in the nummer o fowk wi ony skills in the leid, be it readin, scrievin, spikkin, or listenin.
The proportion o fowk in Scotland whae reportit that they had ony skills in Gaelic and Scots baith grew atween 2011 and 2022.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
6 December 2024
Scottish Budget 2025-26 - Financial Transactions
While we can see where portfolios have a net positive or negative position, and the overall picture, we do not know what the total gross FT funds available are, the total size of repayments, or the outlook for future years repayments. Given net FT allocations to Scotland total some £2.4 billion since 2019-20, it would be helpful for the Scottish Government ...
Committee reports
Date published:
7 October 2024
Remote and Rural Healthcare Inquiry - Allied Health Professions
In evidence to the Committee on 5 December 2023, Sharon Wiener-Ogilvie of the Allied Health Professions Federation, which includes 14 professional bodies and around 14,000 staff across Scotland, pointed to significant recruitment challenges in remote and rural areas.
Committee reports
Date published:
9 September 2024
Post-legislative scrutiny of the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013: Phase 2 - Consistency
While it is widely acknowledged that a policy such as SDS cannot be standardised across Scotland, given the principles of personalisation and empowerment that underpin the policy and the legislation, many stakeholders nonetheless emphasised the importance of ensuring some level of national consistency in implementation.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
26 June 2024
Nuisance complaints - some frequently asked questions - Social housing
The standard tenancy agreement used in social housing in Scotland, the Scottish Secure Tenancy (SST), requires tenants and visitors not to "harass or act in an antisocial manner to, or pursue a course of antisocial conduct against, any person in the neighbourhood."2Scottish Government. (2019, January 31).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
25 June 2024
Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare in Scotland - Legal issues
The Journal of the Law Society of Scotland, 68(6).
A 2022 report by the Regulatory Horizons Council identified multiple challenges relating to the regulation of AI as a medical device.
