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6 November 2024
Community Justice Scotland
Without a longer-term investment in community justice, any reductions in the prison population in future are likely to be short lived, offering at best only a little breathing space before the next crisis.
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15 July 2024
Minister for Housing Housing and Homelessness 12 July 2024
. • We are consulting with COSLA to determine how best to allocate additional support to those local authorities with the greatest temporary accommodation challenges. • We will support the work of local authorities and registered social landlords to better understand what they need to do to reduce turnaround times for empty homes and voids. • We will back e...
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28 June 2024
Letter from the Minister for Parliamentary Business
The Government welcomes these conclusions and will consider how SG Response best to consider potential mitigations for the risks identified.
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10 June 2024
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Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Bill [AS PASSED] An Act of the Scottish Parliament to make provision about gender representation on boards of Scottish public authorities. 1 Gender representation objective (1) The “gender representation objective” for a public board is that it has 50% of non- 5 executive members who are women. (2) Where a public board has an odd number of non-executive members, the percentage mentioned in subsection (1) applies as if the board had one fewer non-executive member. 2 Key definitions 10 In this Act— “appointing person” means, in relation to the function of appointing a non- executive member of a public board, a person who has that function, “excluded position”, in relation to a public authority, means a position mentioned in the second column of the table in schedule 1 which corresponds with the public 15 authority mentioned in the first column, “non-executive member”, in relation to a public authority, means a position on its public board— (a) that is not an excluded position, (b) that is not held by an employee of the authority, 20 “public authority” means an authority listed, or within a description listed, in the first column of the table in schedule 1, “public board” means— (a) if the public authority is a company, the directors, (b) if the public authority has a statutory board or other equivalent statutory 25 management body, that board or body, (c) in relation to any other public authority, the membership of the authority, SP Bill 16B Session 5 (2018) 2 Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Bill “woman” includes a person who has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment (within the meaning of section 7 of the Equality Act 2010) if, and only if, the person is living as a woman and is proposing to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of 5 becoming female. 3 Duty when appointing non-executive members (1) Subsection (2) applies where there is— (a) a vacancy in a position of non-executive member of a public board, (b) more than one candidate for the position, 10 (c) at least one candidate who is a woman, and (d) at least one candidate who is not a woman. (2) The appointing person must, in making the appointment to fill the vacancy, act in accordance with section 4 with a view to achieving (or making progress towards achieving) the gender representation objective immediately after the appointment takes 15 effect. (3) When an appointing person is making more than one appointment— (a) both or all of those appointments must be taken into account in identifying the number of non-executive members, and (b) the appointing person must act with a view to achieving (or making progress 20 towards achieving) the gender representation objective immediately after all of those appointments have taken effect. 4 Consideration of candidates (1) The appointing person must determine whether any particular candidate is best...
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10 June 2024
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Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Bill [AS AMENDED AT STAGE 2] An Act of the Scottish Parliament to make provision about gender representation on boards of Scottish public authorities. 1 Gender representation objective (1) The “gender representation objective” for a public board is that it has 50% of non- 5 executive members who are women. (2) Where a public board has an odd number of non-executive members, the percentage mentioned in subsection (1) applies as if the board had one fewer non-executive member. 2 Key definitions 10 In this Act— “appointing person” means, in relation to the function of appointing a non- executive member of a public board, a person who has that function, “excluded position”, in relation to a public authority, means a position mentioned in the second column of the table in schedule 1 which corresponds with the public 15 authority mentioned in the first column, “non-executive member”, in relation to a public authority, means a position on its public board— (a) that is not an excluded position, (b) that is not held by an employee of the authority, 20 “public authority” means an authority listed, or within a description listed, in the first column of the table in schedule 1, “public board” means— (a) if the public authority is a company, the directors, (b) if the public authority has a statutory board or other equivalent statutory 25 management body, that board or body, (c) in relation to any other public authority, the membership of the authority, SP Bill 16A Session 5 (2017) 2 Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Bill “woman” includes a person who has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment (within the meaning of section 7 of the Equality Act 2010) if, and only if, the person is living as a woman and is proposing to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of 5 becoming female. 3 Duty when appointing non-executive members (1) Subsection (2) applies where there is— (a) a vacancy in a position of non-executive member of a public board, (b) more than one candidate for the position, 10 (c) at least one candidate who is a woman, and (d) at least one candidate who is not a woman. (2) The appointing person must, in making the appointment to fill the vacancy, act in accordance with section 4 with a view to achieving (or making progress towards achieving) the gender representation objective immediately after the appointment takes 15 effect. (3) When an appointing person is making more than one appointment— (a) both or all of those appointments must be taken into account in identifying the number of non-executive members, and (b) the appointing person must act with a view to achieving (or making progress 20 towards achieving) the gender representation objective immediately after all of those appointments have taken effect. 4 Consideration of candidates (1) The appointing person must determine whether any particular candidate is best...
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10 June 2024
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The staff costs provided in Table 3 above represent Revenue Scotland’s best estimate of the staffing resources that will be needed for the programme to deliver ADT.
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7 June 2024
BIMR Conference Isle of Man 2022 Report
Furthermore, they discussed how to share best practice and knowledge across CPA members, given the range of capacity in jurisdictions, both in terms of reducing carbon emissions, and in working to adapt to the impact on climate change, especially for island and coastal communities. 9 Effective Scrutiny of engagement and outreach (Sarah Boyack MSP) 21.
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6 June 2024
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David McGill Clerk of the Parliament 5 June 2024 Appendix (Note: this Appendix does not form part of the Minutes) Other Documents The following document was laid before the Parliament on 4 June 2024 and is not subject to parliamentary procedure— Best Start, Bright Futures: Tackling Child Poverty Progress Report 2023-24 (SG/2024/115) laid under Section 9 of ...
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27 February 2024
JustRight Scotland Written Briefing_March 2022
A visa waiver response, similar to those in operation in other European countries, is the best way forward. The Response at the Local Level in Scotland 16.
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19 January 2024
Minute of meeting held 22 February 2023
We need to create our own end-to-end anti-trafficking system because UK immigration, asylum and trafficking legislation is becoming too severe and inaccessible. - Good-decision making needs to be applied, and this comprises those closest to the survivor who know them best and can make decisions involving them with inside knowledge rather than from a distanc...
