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Official Report, 13 June 2024, Col 42 The Scottish Women’s Convention also recommended that private landlords should be encouraged to take part in training, provided by local authorities, which includes spotting signs of domestic abuse and how to effectively support private tenants.Written evidence: The Scottish Women's Convention
On the provision in the Bill requiring social landlords to consider whether domestic abuse may have contributed to rent arrears as part of their pre...
An explicit duty of progressive realisation taking into account the content of each right.
Enhanced pre-legislative scrutiny in the Scottish Parliament to ensure that future Bills have to comply with the rights in the new framework and not just Convention rights.
The CRF will involve a competitive process. Although there is “no pre-set eligibility”, 100 priority places have been identified in Great Britain “based on an index of economic resilience”, 13 of which are in Scotland.
More work needs to be done to identify information currently held by HMRC that could be used to pre-populate DWP systems to ensure people moving on to Universal Credit can do so seamlessly.
However, when the parents sought continuation of the nursery place for a further year to allow the child's pre-school education to continue, it was denied and the child was left in limbo for that year, between pre-school education and school.
In part, that reflects the fact that the system in Scotland was created in a pre-devolution era, when we did not have the politicians to take ownership in quite the same way as we have post-devolution.