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The Committee therefore notes that short-notice liberations and limited housing capacity hinder coordination of support at the point of releaseiiScottish Parliament Criminal Justice Committee. SPICe analysis of call for views – Inquiry into the harm caused by substance misuse in Scottish prisons (2025), p. 33.
Evolving Goals: Insights into the National Performance Framework Review. Retrieved from https://spice-spotlight.scot/2024/05/02/evolving-goals-insights-into-the-national-performance-framework-review/ [accessed 7 October 2024]
These National Outcomes are measured by a set of 81 National Indicators to help us “measures Scotland’s progress” and “give a measure...
Eligibility will not depend on a lack of previous or subsequent convictions or showing that the case was disposed of by way of a fine.
SPICe understands from the Scottish Government that there were various reasons for diverging from the proposals of the Independent Review.iCorrespondence from the Scottish Government to SPICe These included:
The need to have straightforward qualifying criteria which would allow individuals to assess their own eligibility for the pardon (this was seen as particularly important given the lack of detailed surviving records held by the police and the judicial system)
Fairness arguments - for example, there was feedback which indicated that it would not be fair to disqualify a person from being pardoned for strike-related convictions on the account of other convictions which may already have been spent and which no longer appeared on that person’s criminal record.
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Social Care
The joint SPICe briefing with the Universities of Glasgow and Heriot Watt, The social impact of the 2016-17 local government budget1Gannon, M., Campbell, A., Bailey, N., Hastings, A., Bramley, G., & Aiton, A. (2016, October 31).
Introduction
This briefing presents a range of statistical information on local government finance, to help inform parliamentary debate and answer regular questions that SPICe receives. It is focused on those areas most commonly covered during parliamentary business.
In terms of grants, they received £1,000 from the Council for the tapas business which required a lot of paperwork and time. They also got £4,000 pounds from the UK Government in January and also a grant of £600 a month to adapt their business approach.