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SPICe briefings
Date published:
19 February 2021
Social Security Budget 2021-22 - New benefits in 2021-22
Retrieved from <a href="https://www.fiscalcommission.scot/forecast/scotlands-economic-and-fiscal-forecasts-january-2021/" target="_blank">https://www.fiscalcommission.scot/forecast/scotlands-economic-and-fiscal-forecasts-january-2021/</a> [accessed 9 February 2021]
The Scottish Child Payment (SCP) provides an additional £10 per week for every child in families who get qualifying benefits such as Universal Credit.
Committee reports
Date published:
20 December 2020
Stage 1 Report on United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill - Part 1 of the Bill
However, as the Committee responsible for scrutinising the age of criminal responsibility legislation at Stage 1, we have some sympathy with the point being made about the potential risk of incorporation being seen as having achieved the minimum UNCRC standards.
In our human rights report, Getting Rights Right, the Committee emphasises the need to also iden...
Committee reports
Date published:
9 June 2020
Stage 1 Report on the Social Security Administration and Tribunal Membership (Scotland) Bill - Diagnosing terminal illness for disability assistance purposes
In response, the Cabinet Secretary explained:
It is critical that we get that right, but it is also critical that what we do allows us enough flexibility to deal with changing circumstances in the health professions.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
1 May 2020
Social Security Administration and Tribunal Membership (Scotland) Bill - Delivering the Scottish child payment as quickly as possible
Retrieved from <a href="https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-child-payment-updated-position-paper-october-2019/" target="_blank">https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-child-payment-updated-position-paper-october-2019/</a> [accessed 29 April 2020]
provide a ‘run-on’ payment if someone loses eligibility to a qualifying benefit, because a person must be eligible for a reserved benefit in order to get...
Committee reports
Date published:
7 November 2019
Looking ahead to the Scottish Government’s Draft Budget 2020-21: Valuing the Third Sector - Complexity of application/bidding processes
This, participants believed, favoured larger organisations with dedicated staff to prepare applications, whereas some participants considered smaller organisations were often better placed to support vulnerable people and groups but fail to win contracts.Forth Valley TSI event, 20 September 2019, Event Note
Jude Turbyne, OSCR, argued, “if we want to work with smaller organisations, we have to build a different model of partnership—a different way of working with them—to allow them to get...
Committee reports
Date published:
7 November 2019
Looking ahead to the Scottish Government’s Draft Budget 2020-21: Valuing the Third Sector - Inquiry into third sector funding and accountability
Also, the third sector has a role in holding public bodies, including the Scottish Government, to account. The Getting Rights Right Report observed there was a need for civic society organisations to participate more fully with the treaty monitoring processes to increase accountability of the Scottish Government and its international human rights obligation...
Committee reports
Date published:
31 October 2019
Stage 1 report on the Referendums (Scotland) Bill - Introduction
In particular, that he is “open to alternative approaches to all aspects of the Bill” and “how it can be improved in the light of both evidence that we get from stakeholders and experts and the views of individual Members.”3Official Report, Finance and Constitution Committee, 25 September 2019, Col. 2.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
31 October 2019
Scottish social security benefits - Residence requirements for the best start grant
Residence requirements for the best start grant
To get the BSG, a person must be ordinarily resident in Scotland.
Committee reports
Date published:
29 May 2019
Report on the 2016/17 and 2017/18 Audits of NHS Tayside - Board governance
Board governance
The AAG Third Progress Report noted that strong challenge from the board would also be important moving forward. It said—
We note that while getting the right structures and processes in place is critical, ultimately the real impact of this work will rest on how these are used in practice to hold individuals and teams to account for discha...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
29 March 2019
Transitions of young people with service and care needs between child and adult services in Scotland - Executive Summary
Much of the available evidence, as well as policies, emphasise the value of the Scottish Government Getting It Right For Every Child (GIRFEC) approach and the Principles of Good Transitions, produced by ARC Scotland, in supporting young people's transitions to adulthood.
