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In addition, the Scottish Government works alongside Education Scotland and the SQA who have worked to standardise, promote and make the Scots language more readily available in schools.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 September 2022
The working group is made up with partners including CoSLA, Police Scotland and affected councils and Health Boards to look at how to address the protests and vigils that take place outside of abortion clinics.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 March 2022
Annabel Goldie should be in no doubt that the Government is committed to continuing to tackle Scotland’s drug problem, and “The Road To Recovery” gives us a good framework for doing so effectively.
We talked about that area a lot in relation to mitigation and the climate change bill, and there is a reference in the Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2019 to agroecology.
However, let me be clear that we are absolutely determined that all patients in Scotland should be treated as quickly and as effectively as possible, with the right care in the right place and at the right time.
It is difficult for clinicians to strike the balance between patients, staff and families. It is right to give them guidance, but it is also right to give them flexibility to apply clinical judgment.
We therefore question whether Registers of Scotland would be the right entity to do that, given the nature of its function and the skill set that would be required.
In its reply to SCOSS, the Scottish Government said that it would prefer the DWP and Social Security Scotland to share data about clients moving between Scotland and the rest of the UK.