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These concerns are further reinforced through the following three issues:
The places and neighbourhoods where people live and grow up shape their opportunities and influence their life course4Scottish Government. (2019, April 25).
The concept of a 'connected death' would extend the scope of reviews to cases where there is a background of domestic abuse, but the young person killed was not related to or living with either the abuser or the person being abused.
., “thousands of students in China are now part of Scotland’s wider diaspora, too”), living here, or simply visiting. One “relatively new area” was “a significant number of African-Americans” who have Scottish heritage.
Committee reports
Date published:
20 September 2024
Scottish Land & Estates suggested rural landlords, while Minority Ethnic Carers of People Project (MECOPP) suggested those from black and minority ethnic communities and gave the example of those living on Gypsy/Traveller sites which are not on a mains gas supply, leading to increased fuel costs.SPICe analysis - Housing (Scotland) Bill: analysis of the ...
Official Report, 7 December 2023, Col 15.
On the importance of those with lived experience feeding into decision-making for EIA, the Member highlighted several examples of professions he said had been "ignored" but were of significance in terms of links to particular illnesses—
The Fire Brigades Union has presented really strong evidence of firefighters suf...
They argued that local authorities should be able to use that additional revenue to address local needs and that the funds should not be ring-fenced, in keeping with the aspirations of the Verity House Agreement between the Scottish Government and COSLA.
Living Rent, which represents tenants, similarly welcomed the Regulations, highlighting its concerns abo...
The Bill (as introduced) will remove the need for medical evidence of gender dysphoria, and reduce the time of living in the ‘acquired gender’ from two years to three months, with an additional three-month reflection period.
An analysis of the responses to the call for views provides this summary of the main issues:
The vast majority of respondents were people who lived in static mobile homes. And they were not happy with the way legislative oversight of permanent residents in mobile homes operates.
Committee reports
Date published:
12 September 2023
One of the potential benefits of deliberative democracy is that it brings into the heart of the process those who live outside “the Holyrood bubble”. So any credible model for deliberative democracy has to start with a robust process for selecting participants who (taken together) look like wider Scottish society.
Otherwise, we will have the major problem of having two live decisions.”iiCriminal Justice Committee (Session 6), Official Report Wednesday 25 January 2023, Col 3 https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/official-report/search-what-was-said-in-parliament/%20CJ-25-01-2023?