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Draft Climate Change Plan 2026-2040
The Net Zero, Energy and Transport (NZET) Committee co-ordinated scrutiny of the Scottish Government's draft climate change plan for 2026-2040.
Scaling online and hybrid delivery are a vital consideration to reduce costs, protect doctoral supervision and priority research areas, and cultivate a co-ordinated international recruitment strategy to help sustain diversified income streams.
The evaluation also identified "six key factors to maximise the effectiveness" of the Common Frameworks programme in future:
Increased sharing of good practice across Frameworks
Increasing co-ordination across Frameworks
Effective levels of stakeholder engagement
Increasing wider knowledge and awareness of Frameworks within governments
Central guidance and ...
The Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2009 amended the 2004 Act of the same name to clarify that all looked after children are automatically considered to have additional support for learning needs, and that they must be assessed to determine whether or not they require a Co-ordinated Support Plan. Under the 2004 Act, local authorit...
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She went on to say that the devolved governments in the UK have discussed with the Chief Secretary to the Treasury the need to co-ordinate public sector pay across the UK in a way “that does not generate huge pressure for the devolved nations”.
The strategy has been designed with five key priorities—
Choice, control, and empowerment for the young person;
Clear and coherent information;
Co-ordination of individual support and communication across sectors;
Consistency of practice and support across Scotland; and
Collection of data to measure progress and improvements.7Scottish Government. (2023, Sep...
Committee reports
Date published:
20 September 2024
It is clear that the intention is for the Scottish Housing Regulator to assess the local authority landlord compliance with the duties, but more widely than this it is not clear if there is the scope for each of the regulatory bodies to update their framework to monitor and then feed into an overarching body or if compliance will sit across each individual area, which would defeat the purpose of understanding the value and one of the overarching aims of creating the shared public responsibility and co-ordinated...
Finance and Public Administration Committee Consideration
On 5 March 2024, the Committee took evidence on the draft Regulations from:
Tom Arthur, Minister for Community Wealth and Public Finance;
Scott MacKay, Head of Finance Co-ordination; and
Craig Maidment, Senior Finance Manager, Scottish Government.
However, we believe that making the decisive shift towards prevention envisioned by Christie requires a more strategic and co-ordinated approach. We therefore recommend that the Scottish Government gives clearer weight within its public service reform programme to those reforms that support preventative measures.