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SPICe briefings
Date published:
1 December 2021
Child Poverty in Scotland since the 1960s - 1990s - The highest rate of child poverty in the EU
Writing in 2001, the renowned academic Jonathan Bradshaw reflected on the success of anti child poverty measures introduced by New Labour in their first term in government:
...the task is going to get harder - it has been relatively painless in terms of revenue (and taxation) to shift large numbers of poor children a little below the threshold to a little a...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
13 July 2021
Scottish Child Payment - Executive Summary
The Scottish Government will therefore provide a ‘bridging payment’ to those children aged 6 to 16 who get free school meals on the basis of low income.
Committee reports
Date published:
22 January 2021
BiFab, the offshore wind sector and Scottish supply chain - BiFab background and timeline
Subsequently, the Government has indicated that it plans to work:
As closely as possible with the Administrator to get the best possible outcome for the workforce and yards themselves.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
3 December 2020
Adult social care and support in Scotland - The Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act 2002
Simple treatments - Assistance with medication (including eye drops), application of creams and lotions, simple dressings, oxygen therapy
Personal assistance - Assistance with dressing, surgical appliances, prostheses, mechanical and manual aids. Assistance to get up and go to bed. Transfers including the use of a hoist.
Committee reports
Date published:
5 December 2019
Female Genital Mutilation (Protection and Guidance) (Scotland) Bill - Stage 1 Report - Medical Services
Women said they don’t know where to get help. One has had three babies in Scotland but was never asked about FGM, by social workers or her GP.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
12 September 2019
Mainstreaming nature - international approaches to biodiversity conservation - Game bird licensing - Sweden, Spain and France
Hunting licence fees in Norway and Germany are similarly ring-fenced and paid into designated ‘wildlife funds’. To get a hunting licence hunters must hold insurance and pass the Swedish hunting exam - the licence can be revoked if the licensee breaches regulations.
Committee reports
Date published:
12 June 2019
Social Security Support for Housing - Local Housing Allowance and the cost of renting
r=12033&c=2166054And Beth Reid, Crisis said—
We have done some analysis of the affordability of properties within the LHA rate across Scotland and found that, in 15 of the 18 broad rental market areas in Scotland, there is a monthly shortfall between the amount that LHA tenants can get and the amount that they pay.
Social Security Committee 25 April 201...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
16 April 2019
The expansion of early learning and childcare - Partner provider access to capital funding
Retrieved from <a href="https://parliament.scot/S5_Education/General%20Documents/20181029Focus_group_notes_Rutherglen.pdf" target="_blank">https://parliament.scot/S5_Education/General%20Documents/20181029Focus_group_notes_Rutherglen.pdf</a> [accessed 25 February 2019] Group participants: "queried the extent to which the private providers are getting access to capital funding."2Education and Skills Committee. (2018, November 2).
Committee reports
Date published:
4 March 2019
Stage 1 Report on the Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Bill - Climate Justice
The phrase that I have used is that our sticky fingers are all over climate change, because right from the get-go we were beneficiaries of it, although arguably the vast majority of the population did not benefit massively from the industrial revolution—a small number of fairly wealthy people benefited fairly massively.
Committee reports
Date published:
31 January 2019
Stage 1 Report on the Management of Offenders (Scotland) Bill - Clarity on the need to disclose convictions
In road traffic cases, people are never admonished for speeding or for driving without insurance—they always get a financial penalty. Some employers might be less concerned about someone who drove once without insurance than about someone who was admonished for assaulting a person in a bar or being involved in an offence of dishonesty.
