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Committee reports
Date published:
16 January 2026
Restraint and Seclusion in Schools (Scotland) Bill - Stage 1 Report - Previous Committee consideration
Introduce National Guidance on the use of restraint and seclusion in all schools; this guidance should support the principles of—
Last resort - where it is deemed necessary, restraint should be the minimum required to deal with the agreed risk, for the minimum amount of time;
Appropriate supervision of the child at all times, including during “time out” or seclusion;
Reducing the use of solitary exclusion and limiting the time it is used for (e.g. maximum time limits);
No use of restraints that are cruel, humiliating, painful and unnecessary or not in line with trained techniques;
Accountability...
Last updated:
14 January 2026
Advisory Audit Board
Its advice is based on:
reports from internal and external auditors
SPCB annual reports and accounts
financial policies and management practices set by the Senior Executive Team
compliance with legal matters, where relevant to its work.
Committee reports
Date published:
17 December 2025
Stage 1 Report on the Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Bill - The Need for Change
The Need for Change
Many stakeholders acknowledged the need for transformational change within the Children's Hearings System (CHS), recognising that there was a need to modernise processes to both fulfil the Promise and to take account of legislative and societal changes, which meant that the cases the Children's Hearings System was dealing with were more...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
4 November 2025
Lived experience in the Scottish Parliament: three case studies - Overview
The case studies examine engagement processes undertaken as part of three scrutiny activities:
The Social Justice and Social Security Committee's inquiry into the Financial Considerations when Leaving an Abusive Relationship
The Health and Sport Committee's Stage 1 scrutiny of the Right to (Addiction) Recovery (Scotland) Bill
The Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee's Stage 1 scrutiny of the Housing (Scotland) Bill
Each case study is structured along similar lines, and offers an account...
Education
Last updated:
14 October 2025
Visits to your school
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40 minutes to 1 hour
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Group activity: devolved and reserved matters
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Devolution and devolved matters
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FMQs and scrutiny of the work of the Scottish Government
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Scrutiny and accountability: Chamber and committe...
Committee reports
Date published:
2 October 2025
Strengthening committees' effectiveness - Previous consideration of elected conveners by the Scottish Parliament
This inquiry concluded that instead of introducing elected conveners, there should be a focus on the ability of committees to scrutinise legislation and policy and to hold the government to account. In a further inquiry into the operation of committees in 2016, the then SPPA Committee concluded that it had not heard anything to persuade it that elected conv...
Last updated:
22 September 2025
Scottish Parliament Fellowship Scheme
The purpose of the Scottish Parliament is to hold the Scottish Government to account, to scrutinise legislation and to represent the people of Scotland by debating issues of national importance.
Committee reports
Date published:
16 September 2025
Report on Commissioner nominees to the Scottish Fiscal Commission - Scottish Fiscal Commission
Scottish Fiscal Commission
The Scottish Fiscal Commission (SFC) was established on a statutory basisiThe SFC was created on a non-statutory basis in June 2014 with a remit that reflected the fiscal powers devolved to the Scottish Parliament under the Scotland Act 2012. in April 2017 as Scotland’s independent forecaster responsible for preparing forecasts which underpin the Scottish Budget, reflecting the powers devolved under the Scotland Act 2016.Scotland Act 2016 The 2016 Act constituted the SFC as a Non-Ministerial Office with direct accountability...
Committee reports
Date published:
26 June 2025
Delegated Powers in the Children (Withdrawal from Religious Education and Amendment of UNCRC Compatibility Duty) (Scotland) Bill - Overview of the Bill
The operator of the school must have regard to any views expressed by the pupil about the request, taking into account the pupil's age and maturity.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
14 May 2025
The right to know: freedom of information in Scotland - Responses to the Committee report
Scottish Information Commissioner Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22. Retrieved from https://www.foi.scot/sites/default/files/2024-02/SIC_Annual_Report_And_Accounts_2021-22_Access_Checked.pdf [accessed 11 November 2024]
conducted research on current practices and potential future approaches to proactive publication
started sharing insights from decisions, i...
