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SPICe briefings Date published: 16 March 2026

Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Bill: Consideration prior to Stage 3 - Overview of the Bill

They include (but are not limited to): strengthening of existing duties on local authorities to provide care leavers transitioning from childhood to adulthood with accommodation where needed measures to improve support for kinship carers including provision for kinship carers to request an assessment of their support needs, associated statutory guidance, and data reporting requirements extension of eligibility for aftercare support to all care leavers regulation-making powers for a national register of foster carers to be brought into scope of the UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024...
SPICe briefings Date published: 29 January 2026

Intergovernmental activity update Q4 2025 - Legislative consent

Find out more about legislative consent on the Scottish Parliament's website, and in this November 2024 SPICe blog. SPICe has also developed two tools that can be used to track legislative consent at the Scottish Parliament, which can be accessed on SPICe's intergovernmental activity hub.
Committee reports Date published: 16 January 2026

Restraint and Seclusion in Schools (Scotland) Bill - Stage 1 Report - Independent and grant-aided special schools

Retrieved from https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/committees/education-children-and-young-people-committee/correspondence/2025/restraint-and-seclusion-bill-cab-sec-es-to-convener-26-june-2025.pdf [accessed 2 December 2025]— The Scottish Government is not clear from the policy memorandum why the Bill requires independent and grant-aided schools to report restraint to the education authority in which they are situated. The 2024...
SPICe briefings Date published: 16 January 2026

Scottish Budget 2026-27 - Public sector pay policy

At the time of the MTFS, it was estimated that where pay deals had been agreed, the costs could be around £122 million higher, compared to the costs expected under the Public Sector Pay Policy published in December 2024. Accounting for pay deals and offers made since then, this estimate has now increased to £280 million (including Local Government) for 2025...
Committee reports Date published: 21 December 2025

Report on the Cost-effectiveness of Scottish Public Inquiries - Introduction

The SPICe briefing and updated cost table shows that in September 2025, the total ‘direct’ cost of statutory public inquiries since 2007 was £258.8 million, this is an almost £30 million increase since the Committee started tracking public inquiry costs from December 2024.
Committee reports Date published: 19 December 2025

Stage 1 report on the Wellbeing and Sustainable Development (Scotland) Bill - SPCB Supported Bodies Landscape Review Committee

SPCB Supported Bodies Landscape Review Committee The Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (SPCB) Supported Bodies Landscape Review Committee was established in December 2024, after the Bill had been introduced.
Committee reports Date published: 18 November 2025

Pre-Budget scrutiny 2026-27: future social security spending in Scotland - Take-up rates and Minimum Income Guarantee: conclusions and recommendations

We are aware there has been a big increase in applications for Pension Credit since July 2024, and we expect this to be reflected in a positive impact on take-up rates when official statistics are next released.
Committee reports Date published: 7 November 2025

Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee report on the Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 and the Equality Act 2010 (Specification of Public Authorities) (Scotland) Order 2025 - Consideration by the Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee

She explained that the schedule to the Circular Economy (Scotland) Act 2024 applied the majority of public sector duties to ZWS, such as those in the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and the Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc (Scotland) Act 2003.
Committee reports Date published: 2 October 2025

Strengthening committees' effectiveness - Role of committee composition and remit in working culture

As a consequence, the approach to business was fluid and people learned to work together.”vStandards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee. (2024, February 29). Official Report. Retrieved from: https://www.parliament.scot/api/sitecore/CustomMedia/OfficialReport?
SPICe briefings Date published: 25 September 2025

Digital assets in Scots law - How should digital assets be categorised within property law?

If these two forms of division are combined, there are four broad categories of property, as indicated in the table below – (a) corporeal heritable; (b) incorporeal heritable; (c) corporeal moveable; and (d) incorporeal moveable.1Gretton, G.L., & Steven, A.J.M. (2024). Property, Trusts and Succession.

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