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We will increase capacity through the National Treatment Centres across Scotland, which will see activity rise from just over 20,000 in 2024/25 to well over 30,000 in 2025/26.
Results Final results are anticipated in May 2024. We will host a stakeholder workshop at the end of the project, involving those with experience of imprisonment or caring about someone who has been in prison, practitioners, and policymakers.
Committee reports
Date published:
2 September 2025
The Bill
The Bill was introduced by the UK Government in the House of Commons on 10 October 2024. It completed Report stage in the Lords in July 2025 and will progress to 3rd Reading on 3 September 2025.
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Significant concerns were also raised that no MTFS was published in 2024, which the Scottish Government said was due to a change in First Minister followed by a UK general election.
PE2027: Launch the Changing Places Toilet fund
PE2028: Extend the concessionary bus travel scheme to include people seeking asylum in Scotland
PE2029: Nationalise Clydeport to bring the ports and harbours on the river Clyde into public ownership
PE2030: Review cultural funding arrangements to enable Scotland to contribute to the Venice Biennale in 2024
PE20...
Committee reports
Date published:
22 February 2024
Retrieved from https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/committees/current-and-previous-committees/session-6-health-social-care-and-sport-committee/correspondence/2023/national-care-service-minister-response-december-23 [accessed 9 January 2024]
Many organisations responding to the Committee's call for views supported this provision in principle.
I stress that the provisions of bills that the Scottish Government is introducing are compatible with the UNCRC—it is simply that the compatibility duty in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024 does not attach to certain functions, such as those that are in UK enactments.
More than 2,000 children and young people benefited from the support of a school counsellor to deal with bereavement between April 2024 and March 2025. Outside of school, since 2016, the Scottish Government has funded Child Bereavement UK to provide support for children and young people who are experiencing bereavement, as well as their families.
Scotch whisky exports were worth £5.4 billion in 2024—the equivalent of 44 bottles a second, or 1.4 billion bottles a year, being exported from Scotland to more than 160 markets around the world.