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Committee reports
Date published:
14 October 2024
Pre-Budget Scrutiny 2025-26 - Long-term planning
This would, allow for more effective service design and provide Best Value in public spending. The current trend of issuing single year budgets threatens the sustainability of essential services and does not provide IJBs with the funding certainty required to undertake long-term financial and strategic planning.
News
Published:
23 September 2024
The Scottish Parliament comes to Glasgow as it continues its 25th anniversary events
“Having already visited the Highland and Islands region and the Borders, this visit to Glasgow is an opportunity to meet with local community groups to hear about the challenges facing them and how their Parliament can best meet the needs of their communities.
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) - Pressure on the sector
We must not overlook the valuable work already being done across the sector, and so the Committee considers the legislation could help to embed that best practice, so bodies should not feel the pressure to “reinvent the wheel” as a result of the legislation where it is already working.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
15 March 2024
Public participation in the Scottish Parliament: Understanding the core principles of deliberative democracy and creating a framework for measuring impact - Summary
A set of proposed core principles for the use of deliberative approaches in the Scottish Parliament, along with recommendations on a proposed framework for evaluating the use core principles in practice.
Suggestions on how to best build a strong practice repository and evidence base for the use of deliberative methods.
News
Published:
12 May 2023
Air Quality Improvement Plan receives Committee approval
During the inquiry, the Committee also assessed the effectiveness of Scottish Government policy and practise by considering its’ ‘Cleaner Air for Scotland 2 Strategy’; the implementation and impact of Low Emission Zones; and Scotland’s performance in relation to international best practice. Related recommendations include for example...
Committee reports
Date published:
26 April 2023
Long COVID - Single point of contact
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The most important and best feedback that we received was that every single patient going through the system should have a named individual as a core point of contact to act almost as their liaison between the different specialities.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
19 December 2022
Budget 2023-24 - Overall spending and the 2022-23 baseline
For the purposes of this briefing, therefore, we will present the budgets as presented by the Scottish Government in the documentation. This will allow the best read across between the numbers referred to in the Budget and SPICe analysis.
Committee reports
Date published:
19 December 2022
National Care Service (Scotland) Bill - Stage 1 Report - Opportunities offered by change
viiEducation, Children and Young People Committee, Official Report, 23 November 2022, Cols 16 & 17
Vicky Irons, Chief Officer of Dundee Health and Social Care Partnership, suggested that "the best infrastructure that we can create is one where we have a completely integrated health and social care service across the entire life spectrum," noting that "e...
News
Published:
24 September 2022
MSPs express concern that high-risk groups felt let down by COVID-19 public health communications
The inquiry had the following aims:
To understand the challenges, including the existence of any misinformation and disinformation, faced by government in communicating public health messages in the pandemic to date and to consider what could be done by government to tackle these issues going forward;
To consider whether public health information about COVID-19 is accessible to and meets the needs of specific audiences going forward, including people in the shielding category and communities where there has been below-average uptake in vaccination to date;
To understand how scientific information about personal health risks and risks to wider society can be best...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
21 September 2022
SPICe Bill Summaries - Session 5 - Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Bill
The Policy Memorandum states that this requires the right people, in the right place, with the right skills at the right time to ensure the best health and care outcomes. To further this purpose, the Bill sought to place the use of an existing, but enhanced, workforce planning method (tools) on a statutory footing.
