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SPICe briefings
Date published:
16 September 2020
Redress for Survivors (Historical Child Abuse in Care) (Scotland) Bill - Executive Summary
The Policy Memorandum also states that:
"The scheme provides elements of accountability, justice, and financial and non-financial redress for those who wish to access it.
Committee reports
Date published:
22 June 2020
PE1319: Improving youth football in Scotland - Provision of high-quality artificial surfaces across Scotland
Local decisions are rightly a matter for local authorities to take, taking into account local needs and priorities. The Scottish Government is committed to working with local authorities and our other key partners to ensure that we have in place the right facilities in the right places that will allow us to achieve our outcomes for sport and physical activ...
Committee reports
Date published:
9 June 2020
Stage 1 Report on the Social Security Administration and Tribunal Membership (Scotland) Bill - Appointees for adults with capacity
The Law Society suggested looking to the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 which includes:
“clear procedures for appointment and termination, principles which guide the actions of the attorney and promote involvement of the individual, supervision by the Office of the Public Guardian, obligations to account, and recourse to legal remedies when thi...
Committee reports
Date published:
11 February 2020
Facial recognition: how policing in Scotland makes use of this technology - Use of the UK Police National Database
However, the Inspectorate raised a specific concern about a lack of oversight, finding that:
“Whilst noting the statutory responsibilities of the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) to hold the Chief Constable to account for the policing of Scotland, we are unaware of any specific work in Scotland that has sought to provide external assurance over the use of PN...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
16 January 2020
Medicines in Scotland - Medicines expenditure in Scotland
Projected drugs expenditure as a proportion of total primary care and hospital expenditureThe biggest effect would be seen in the primary care sector where it could potentially account for 32.5% of expenditure.
Growth would be less pronounced in secondary care (12.4% of spend in 2029/30) but the spend would still take up an increasing proportion of the budg...
Committee reports
Date published:
26 November 2019
Secure care and prison places for children and young people in Scotland - The rates of suicide and contributory factors
That said, HMIPS accepts that young people are known to be a high-risk group in both the community and within custody, with under 24 year olds accounting for 10% of all suicides in Scotland over the last five years.3HMIPS. (2019, May).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
21 November 2019
The Children (Scotland) Bill - Presumptions for the courts: shared parenting and protection from abuse
Instead, the approach in the Bill is to try to address policy concerns through developing the statutory factors the court must take into account in individual cases.6Scottish Government. (2019, September 3).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
21 November 2019
The Children (Scotland) Bill - Background
This doesn't mean the court has to follow the views expressed - the welfare of the child may require a different approach.
The court can take account of the child's age and maturity, and a child who is aged 12 or over is presumed to be mature enough to form a view.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
30 October 2019
Scottish Elections (Reform) Bill - Electoral wards and the number of councillors
Those in favour argued that "increased flexibility would allow greater account to be taken of rurality, population density, geography and travel times, ‘natural communities’, and the special circumstances of island communities in setting ward boundaries".
SPICe briefings
Date published:
12 September 2019
Mainstreaming nature - international approaches to biodiversity conservation - Developing ecosystem-based fisheries management - Norway
Under article 7, it is mandatory for fisheries management to apply “an ecosystem approach, taking into account habitats and biodiversity”. This has been described as a paradigm shift in the management of Norwegian fisheries4Gullestad, P., Abotnes, A., Bakke, G., Skern-Mauritzen, M., Nedreaas, K., & Søvik, G. (2017).
