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Published:
9 May 2025
Parliament to nominate Scotland’s first Patient Safety Commissioner
Next week (Thursday 15 May) the Scottish Parliament will be invited to nominate Karen Titchener to His Majesty for appointment as Scotland’s inaugural Patient Safety Commissioner..
SPICe briefings
Date published:
25 February 2025
Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill - Timescales
There is no clear evidence that faster access to rehabilitation results in higher completion rates, reduces the risk of relapse or the risk of drug related death.
The Scottish Drugs Forum raised concerns regarding the potential unintended consequences of setting timescales in the legislation:
There is a significant risk that the Bill would allow ‘gaming’ of...
Committee reports
Date published:
3 December 2024
Education (Scotland) Bill - Stage 1 Report - Early Learning and Childcare
The Committee also asks for the Scottish Government to clarify the definition of ELC funded partners within the Bill.
Committee reports
Date published:
3 December 2024
Education (Scotland) Bill - Stage 1 Report - Qualifications Scotland staff interests
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It will be important for staff to fully understand this role, and whether it is a mechanism for staff to raise issues to the Board, or to hear and respond to them.
The Committee urges the Scottish Government to clearly articulate the role it envisages the staff representative will play on the Qualifications Scotland Board, in pa...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
3 October 2024
Post-Legislative Scrutiny in the Scottish Parliament: A Reflection of Session 5 - Type and strength of recommendations
One benefit of the committee structure in the Scottish Parliament is that even if committees do not recommend legislative action from post-legislative scrutiny, they are in a position to be able to substantively shape new legislation in their respective policy area even if it is a number of years later.
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) - Reasonable steps to prevent homelessness and assessment of housing support services
Further details on the 'reasonable steps' that need to be taken will be set out in secondary legislation.
The Scottish Homelessness Network supported the provisions but caveated this by stating that the reasonable steps a local authority would be expected to make should be underpinned by a definition of the term "threatened with homelessness".iThe Social Ju...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
26 July 2024
Economic inactivity and ill health in Scotland - What is economic inactivity?
Scotland's Economic and Fiscal Forecasts. Edinburgh: Scottish Fiscal Commission.. At the same time, inactivity reduces the working-age tax base 4Millar, R., Burns, H., & Morton, A. (2015).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
25 June 2024
Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare in Scotland - Artificial intelligence
.): Pearson.Scotland's Artificial Intelligence Strategy defines AI as follows:
Technologies used to allow computers to perform tasks that would otherwise require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, and language translation.
Scottish Government. (2021). Scotland’s Artificial Intelligence Strategy: Trustworthy, Ethical and Incl...
Committee reports
Date published:
14 June 2024
Stage 1 Report on the Judicial Factors (Scotland) Bill - Sections 34 and 38
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The Committee calls on the Scottish Government to consider whether it needs to clarify further the interrelationship between sections 34 and 38, given the apparent confusion of some stakeholders.
News
Published:
18 April 2024
Parliament to agree the appointment of two new members of the Standards Commission for Scotland
Parliament to agree the appointment of two new members of the Standards Commission for Scotland.
The Scottish Parliament will be asked on 23 April 2024 to agree the appointment of two new members of the Standards Commission for Scotland..
