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Furthermore, at a broad level, we would draw attention to the collective concerns raised by members of the Criminal Justice Voluntary Sector Forum regarding prison overcrowding and voice our support for the following calls: meaningful engagement with the third sector at a national level around the crisis response; embedding of lived experience involvement i...
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26 September 2025
Responding to these suggestions, the DFM’s supporting official confirmed that discussions had taken place with organisations including BDA Scotland and the ALLIANCE about the possibility of setting up a network to enable the community to “give a live reaction to any policies or emerging issues” and that the suggestion merited further discussion.6Equalities,...
Because people are now arriving at Edinburgh Airport, and they're being picked up by sponsors and they're going to go and live in these people’s houses […] And I think there was a genuine attempt to bring colleagues together […] There were Council Chief Execs that were involved [and] were lots of people that were coming together [around the issue of safegua...
meetingId=16357 The Scottish Women’s Budget Group further suggested that “while the [MTFS] has provided a sense of direction in Scotland’s financial planning this has often been short lived”, adding that the emergency in-year changes to the budget “would suggest that the MTFS and/or other fiscal tools are not currently supporting the Scottish Government’s f...
After all, we do not want to disenfranchise people living in island communities; they will be paying the deposit on their drinks containers, so they will want to get that back.
The Bill aimed to improve the health and wellbeing of dogs throughout their lives by establishing a more responsible and informed approach to acquiring and owning a dog and by making provision for regulating the sale or transfer of puppies from unlicensed litters.
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CELCIS highlighted the need to "meaningfully include learners with care experience, and the people who live with, care for and teach them."4CELCIS. (2024, September).
PE2043: Change the way gender theory is presented in schools
PE2044: Recommit the £26 million pledged to colleges in the 2023/24 budget
PE2045: Lower the cervical cancer smear test age in Scotland to sixteen
PE2046: Provide birth certificates for stillborn babies
PE2047: Make malicious false allegations a hate crime
PE2048: Review the FAST stroke awareness campaign
PE2049: Introduce buffer zones outside migrant accommodation
PE2050: Prohibit the use of recreational drones on national nature reserves without a permit from NatureScot
PE2051: Improve the processes for protecting children and young people from traumatic incidents at school
PE2052: Ban child circumcision unless it is medically necessary with no less invasive solutions available
PE2053: Stop the cuts to community link workers and help secure their long-term future within GP practice teams
PE2054: Establish an independent review into the proposed Spaceport 1 development at Scolpaig Farm in North Uist
PE2055: Stop the exportation of live...
The policy memorandum states that the purpose of the Bill is to “improve the health and well-being of dogs throughout their lives, by establishing a more responsible and informed approach to acquiring and owning a dog; and by making provision for the regulation of the selling and transferring of puppies from unlicensed litters”.