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Committee reports
Date published:
2 August 2022
Scottish Attainment Challenge - Additionality
A school that is to lose a couple of support staff because of a change in funding or policy in the authority might use PEF to retain those staff because it knows that it needs them to make a difference and that losing them would have a negative impact.Official Report, 20 April 2022, col 15
Jim Thewliss of School Leaders Scotland agreed that a baseline on which to gauge additionality is needed:
the notion of basic staffing formulas and basic minimum funding is fundamental if we are going to deliver equity in relation to the level of deprivation that exists in individual schools.Official Report, 20 April 2022, col 19
The EIS stated that attainment challenge funding is not the means through which essential staffing in the interests of equity should be funded:
If the Scottish...
Committee reports
Date published:
2 August 2022
Scottish Attainment Challenge - Wider measures
Wider measures
The focus of the Scottish Attainment Challenge is threefold: literacy, numeracy, and health and wellbeing.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
24 May 2022
Children and young people's mental health in Scotland - Long waits
Retrieved from <a href="https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/child-and-adolescent-mental-health-services-camhs-waiting-times/child-and-adolescent-mental-health-services-camhs-waiting-times-quarter-ending-31-december-2021/" target="_blank">https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/child-and-adolescent-mental-health-services-camhs-waiting-times/child-and-adolescent-mental-health-services-camhs-waiting-times-quarter-ending-31-december-2021/</a> [accessed 15 March 2022]
In September 2021, Kevin Stewart MSP, Minister for Mental Wellbeing and Social Care, responded to a written question regarding the Scottish...
Committee reports
Date published:
30 March 2022
National Planning Framework 4 - Resourcing of planning departments
I have committed to taking that work forward.iLocal Government, Housing and Planning Committee, Official Report, 22 February 2022
The Committee would welcome the Scottish Government's view on how this issue of resourcing planning departments is addressed.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
22 March 2022
Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Articles (Scotland) Bill - Background
Background
Legislative Context
The statutory control of fireworks and pyrotechnic articles consists of both primary legislation, and regulations (both UK and Scottish). The following paragraphs set out the main provisions pertaining to the sale, use and supply of fireworks.
Committee reports
Date published:
20 January 2022
Subordinate Legislation Considered by the COVID-19 Recovery Committee on 20 January 2022 - The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (International Travel and Operator Liability) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2022 (SSI 2022/2)
The Committee also calls on the Scottish Government to amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (International Travel and Operator Liability) (Scotland) Regulations 2021, in light of the insertion by regulation 7 of the instrument, to define the term “confirmatory test” at the next legislative opportunity.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
27 October 2021
Fisheries governance after Brexit - Key Terms
Some parts of retained EU law needed to be changed to ensure the law was clear and could work properly in domestic law, for example, by removing references to the UK being a Member State, removing references to “euros” or replacing a reference to an EU institution with a reference to a UK or Scottish institution. This exercise of changing retained EU law to...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
20 October 2021
The impact of COVID-19 on Scotland’s women entrepreneurs - Case 4: Alison Gray
Just before the pandemic she won £40,000 from Scottish Edge funding which helped to build her e-platform.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
20 October 2021
The impact of COVID-19 on Scotland’s women entrepreneurs - Case 3: Sarah Geoghegan
Although she is a member of Federation of Small Business and Scottish Chamber of Commerce, early in the pandemic she did not receive any support.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
13 October 2021
Housing conditions and standards (updated) - Councils' powers to address poor house conditions
Otherwise it must serve a dangerous building notice ordering the owner to carry out work which the council considers necessary to remove the danger (again, this work can include demolition).Enhanced enforcement area (EEA)(Secondary legislation made under the Housing (Scotland) Act 2014)A council can apply to Scottish Ministers for an area to be classified a...
