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The Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee wanted to understand if the changes the Act brought into force had improved the lives of BSL users.
The Committee was also keen to find out what changes could be made in both the shorter and longer term to support BSL users..
“This Committee has heard from those in charge of the funicular, the public bodies supporting it, those living and working in the area and nature conservation activists.
It will act to connect MSPs with organisations working to tackle poverty, as well as with people living on low incomes across Scotland, in order to better inform anti-poverty policy-making and contribute to the ending of poverty in Scotland.
According to the Policy Memorandum—
These convictions have been described by survivors of prostitution as a substantial and often insurmountable barrier to rebuilding their lives as previous criminal convictions have an impact on many areas of daily life, but especially on employment.
Witnesses also emphasised that a trauma-informed culture is inseparable from a humanising approach to care. Lived-experience contributors described the difference it made when staff spoke to them as people rather than “prisoners with problems”.
Perhaps the most substantive element of this part of the SFC forecasts is projected earnings growth, partly because it tells us about people’s material standard of living, but also because it feeds through to forecasted tax revenues for the Scottish Government.
Marianne Scobie from Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living said in oral evidence to the Committee2Scottish Parliament Health, Social Care and Sport Committee. (2025).
Committee reports
Date published:
9 September 2025
The regulations remove those requirements in relation to:
Child Disability Payment
Adult Disability Payment
Pension Age Disability Payment
Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance
Best Start Grants
Best Start Foods
Young Carer Grant
Carer Support Payment
The Scottish Government has explained in its statement, made under section 97(9)(b) of the Social Secu...
And that (para 5):
To some bereaved relatives and friends of people who lost their lives in a war, but whose bodies were not recovered or repatriated, a war memorial is symbolic of a grave site and is viewed by them as such.