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SPICe briefings
Date published:
4 November 2025
Lived experience in the Scottish Parliament: three case studies - Identifying a specific group to work with
There were lots of discussions about the remit of the inquiry and the best group of people to engage on the subject.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
4 November 2025
The Role of Lived Experience in the Scottish Parliament - Lived experience to improve scrutiny
Committee memberInput from people with lived experience of particular issues was viewed as the best source of information where there were gaps in existing, or proposed policies.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
11 September 2025
Getting the inactive active: Barriers to physical activity and potential policy solutions - Local Authority Case Study
The following point in relation to presenting this case study encapsulates the value to continuing to explore and analyse the approach taken in Glasgow regarding examples of best practice and the challenges and successes they experience in implementing their strategy:
If you nail it in Glasgow, you've nailed it for the whole of Scotland because of the healt...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
8 April 2025
SPICe Style and Writing Guide (Updated 2025) - Layout
Where longer explanations are needed, consider how best to present this information – for example in an emphasis box (Fonto) or in a dedicated definitions section at the beginning of the document.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
3 March 2025
Scotland's care system for children and young people: subject profile 2025 update - The foster care process: approval and placement
The Looked After Children (Scotland) Regulations 2009 sets out local authority duties and responsibilities around the placement of a child with a foster carer. The placement must be in the best interests of the child; placement with family members must have first been considered.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
25 February 2025
Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill - Clinical decision making
Creating a law that determines how the Clinician will deliver care may not be in the best interest of the patient [...] Our concern is that imposing a prescriptive list of “treatments” and timeline for all patients has the potential to cause harm and constrains clinical decision making.
Committee reports
Date published:
27 November 2024
Subordinate Legislation: The Budget (Scotland) Act 2024 Amendment Regulations 2024 [draft] - Public sector pay
When asked about the disparity between the Scottish Government and SFC’s assumptions regarding the extent of the public sector pay increases, the Minister stated that—
at the time when that budgeted number for pay was included, it was our best estimate of where that would land.
Committee reports
Date published:
20 September 2024
Stage 1 Report on Housing (Scotland) Bill: Part 5 (homelessness prevention) and Part 6 (other housing matters - fuel poverty) - Background to homelessness legislation and policy and Scottish Government consultation
The Scottish Government asked homelessness charity Crisis to convene the Prevention Review Group (PRG), chaired by Professor Suzanne Fitzpatrick, to develop recommendations for legal duties on Scottish local authorities and wider public bodies to prevent homelessness, and how these might be best implemented. The recommendations in the final report of the Pr...
Committee reports
Date published:
16 September 2024
Report on Scotland's Commissioner Landscape: A Strategic Approach - Role of the Scottish Government
The letter further suggests that “it could be a viable option” for the SPCB to introduce a similar “best value assurance process” for proposals originating outside Government.
Committee reports
Date published:
2 July 2024
Police (Ethics, Conduct and Scrutiny) (Scotland) Bill Stage 1 Report - Views on the proposals in the Bill
In its written evidence, the SPF said that these new powers “dramatically” change PIRC’s remit, stating that “Any investigation that is a criminal nature would surely be best to be investigated by the Police".
