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Committee reports
Date published:
26 September 2025
Report on British Sign Language (Scotland) Act 2015 - Impact of the British Sign Language (Scotland) Act (2015)
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Participants in the informal discussions with stakeholders also broadly agreed that improvements had been made over the last decade, particularly through greater visibility of BSL, strengthening accountability, enabling BSL users to challenge public bodies to enforce their rights, and the establishment of the Contact Scotland BSL online inte...
Committee reports
Date published:
23 September 2025
Stage 1 report: Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill - Interaction with the existing legal framework
It is a suggestion, and it is one that offers no route to challenge, no legal redress and no accountability when treatment is denied. We know that because our clients have been waving those charters in meetings for years.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
1 September 2025
Freedom of Information Reform (Scotland) Bill - Time for compliance
Retrieved from https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/legislation/bills/s6-bills/freedom-of-information-reform-scotland-bill/introduction/spbill72ens062025accessible.pdf [accessed 18 July 2025]
Section 7(2) of the Bill proposes repealing the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (Time for Compliance) Regulations 2016, which extend the response time for grant-aided schools and independent special schools to account...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
22 July 2025
Links between Climate Change and Health in Scotland. - Health, Climate Change and Inequalities
Family Practice, 40, 498-501. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmac146
The researchers note that preventive medicine is the most sustainable way to practice and make some recommendations based on the views expressed by the GP research participants, including taking the carbon impact of different medications into account when prescribing and including sus...
News
Published:
27 June 2025
Scottish Parliament seeks views on what should be included in the forthcoming Climate Change Plan
The most recent version of the Climate Change Plan is the third Report on Proposals and Policies, published in 2018, taken together with the Climate Change Plan update, published in 2020 (the latest to take account of the net zero target introduced by the Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2019).
Committee reports
Date published:
26 June 2025
Delegated Powers in the Children (Withdrawal from Religious Education and Amendment of UNCRC Compatibility Duty) (Scotland) Bill - Review of relevant powers
Section 1 of this Bill inserts a new section 9A into the 1980 Act, which provides that operators of such schools must take into account the views of the pupil when such a request is made.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
24 June 2025
Neurodevelopmental Pathways and Waiting Times in Scotland - The Scottish Strategy for Autism
Scottish Government, Scottish Strategy for Autism: evaluation, 2021Another review of the Strategy, published by the Cross-Party Group on Autism, also found that there was:
widespread frustration that the aims of the strategy have often not been put into practice or realised at a local level
Cross-Party Group on Autism, The Accountability Gap, 2020In March 2...
Committee reports
Date published:
17 June 2025
Report on the Home Detention Curfew (Amendment of Specified Time Periods) (Scotland) Order 2025 [draft]
The changes within this instrument will also take account of the changes to automatic release points brought into force for certain short-term sentenced individuals, as a result of the Prisoner (Early Release) (Scotland) Act 2025.
News
Published:
9 May 2025
Holyrood Committee calls for second phase of Growth Deals to benefit Scotland’s economy, with lessons to be learned
Partnership working has created more bureaucracy with complex governance structures and untidy lines of accountability. The Committee would like to see more flexibility to enable growth deals to quickly adapt to changing economic circumstances and a more streamlined approach to the delivery of projects within deals.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
29 April 2025
The UK Employment Rights Bill - Suggestions for further reading
Also very useful is a further in-depth research briefing, taking account of the Bill as amended at the Commons committee stage - but not at the Commons report stage - published by the House of Commons Library on 12 February 2025.25Brione, P., & Cunningham, S. (2025, February 12).
