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Annexe E - Education policies and strategies relevant to child poverty
Lifetime skills offer
An initial lifetime skills offer is to be developed by December 2023 to help address in-work poverty with a focus on how best to upskill and retrain adults in work and/or at risk of redundancy.
Committee reports
Date published:
20 November 2023
BASC and the SGA also highlighted best practice around where modified cable restraints are placed (not in areas where there are non-target species) and either checking more regularly or at a different time of the day.
The Scottish Parliament’s Economy and Fair Work Committee is looking at the Scottish Government’s plans for the area and will make recommendations on how to best mange the transition.
To do this, the Committee needs to hear directly from those at the heart of industry in the area.
Committee reports
Date published:
14 September 2023
And therefore, “even if you want to democratise culture in the sense of democratising those high arts organisations, the best way to do that is through having a strong cultural democracy whereby there is a localised, grounded network that can be connected into”.1Scottish Parliament. (2023, April 27).
Committee reports
Date published:
12 September 2023
Progress is measured by child poverty statistics, released annually along with annual progress reports required by the Act. The current delivery plan, Best Start, Bright Futures: tackling child poverty delivery plan 2022 to 2026 was published on 24 March 2022.
A recent amendment to the 2009 Regulations introduced a duty for local authorities to place siblings together in care, as long as this is in their best interests.
The Children's Hearings (Scotland) Act 2011 fundamentally overhauled legislation on the children's hearings system and sought to strengthen children's rights in the context of that system.
It may be that other organisations can take up the slack, but given the need for research informed professional development it may be best to deploy the knowledge and skills of those for whom research forms a significant part of their work.