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11 September 2025
S6W-40195
This includes up to 3,000 additional staff - almost 700 of whom are teachers - with the remainder in roles such as family link workers, pupil support assistants, education psychologists, speech and language therapists and family income advisors.The Scottish Government also continues to support free income maximisation, welfare and debt advice services with £16.9 million invested in 2025-26, a significant increase on the £12.3 million invested in 2022...
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8 August 2025
S6W-39731
In addition to scored social impact questions, it highlights other practical ways to achieve social and economic outcomes, such as:While Including social requirements in specifications,Dividing contracts into lots to facilitate access for SMEs and third sector organisations,Reserving contracts for supported businesses.The effectiveness of this approach, which includes extensive training and support to implement these policies, is evidenced in the 2023 report Scotland’s Journey of Achieving Sustainable Procurement Outcomes (2002–2022...
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25 June 2025
S6W-38001
Engagement with businesses in Scotland informed the production of the BANS series, including Building a New Scotland: A stronger economy with independence (October 2022) which details how businesses will be supported on trade.The proposals in the paper include support services and guidance to help traders understand and comply with any new arrangements.
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7 May 2025
S6W-37113
Although there has been increases in homelessness applications and non-compliance with statutory duties in some areas, 12 local authorities reduced the number of households in temporary accommodation in 2023-24 compared to 2022-23 and 20 councils reduced the number of children in temporary accommodation.Increasing housing supply is key to reducing levels of...
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29 April 2025
S6W-36963
Procurement legislation requires public bodies to treat suppliers equally and without discrimination irrespective of size when buying goods, services and works.Through the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014, we introduced a legal requirement for public bodies to consider and act on opportunities to facilitate the involvement of small or medium-sized enterprises (‘SMEs’), third sector organisations and supported businesses in the procurement process, and also to advertise regulated contract opportunities openly and transparently on Public Contracts Scotland, helping SMEs to identify opportunities in the supply chain.We continue to focus on making it easier for SMEs to participate in public supply chains, including publishing an SME and Third Sector Procurement Action Plan in 2024 as part of our New Deal for Business.We continue to test, challenge and inform procurement approaches through industry engagement, such as round tables with SMEs, to underpin continuous improvement.The ‘annual report on procurement activity in Scotland 2022...
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24 April 2025
S6W-36283
The Ethical Standards Commissioner regulates this area and their Code of Practice for Public Appointments (the ‘Code’) and associated Code Guidance (both 2022) set out the position relating to political activity.
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Date answered:
24 April 2025
S6W-36393
We are also taking action through our National Litter and Fly-Tipping Strategy to reduce land sources of litter which can make their way into our seas.It takes time for implemented policies and legislation to begin to be reflected in beach litter levels, such as the ban on plastic-stemmed cotton buds from 2019, and the ban on other single-use items including polystyrene food containers from 2022. With more measures and legislation expected in the future; banning wet wipes containing plastic and a Deposit Return Scheme for drinks containers, we expect to see these litter levels reduce.
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22 April 2025
S6W-36264
The tolerable standard sets out the basic requirements for a safe and habitable home including standards relating to electrical and fire safety. From February 1 2022, an amendment to the statutory tolerable standard requires that all houses, regardless of tenure (or method of construction), must have satisfactory provision for detecting and giving warning o...
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17 April 2025
S6W-36274
We want to ensure that Scotland is the ideal place to raise a family, and while deciding to have a child or not is rightly a personal decision, we are identifying and addressing barriers to people starting or expanding families in line with their intentions, through the delivery of Scotland’s Population Strategy.Our 2022 ‘Attitudes to Family For...
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2 April 2025
S6W-35666
Their safeguarding policies can be found here: https://syp.org.uk/safeguarding/I refer the member to the SYP Board statement from 2022 which followed media reports on historical allegations.
