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SPICe briefings
Date published:
16 January 2026
Scottish Budget 2026-27 - Justice and Home Affairs
The Criminal Justice Committee in its pre-budget report, made specific recommendations for the level of funding for the five public justice bodies within the portfolio (Police Scotland, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, Scottish Prison Service, Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service, and the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS)).
Committee reports
Date published:
21 November 2025
Pre-Budget scrutiny 2026-27: funding for culture - Alternative funding models
Alternative funding models
The Committee’s 2022-23 Pre-Budget report noted that the pandemic offered an opportunity to explore new perspectives and recommended that the Scottish Government should work with the culture sector to embed innovative responses.
Committee reports
Date published:
18 November 2025
Pre-Budget scrutiny 2026-27: future social security spending in Scotland - Child poverty targets and the Scottish Child Payment
Counselling Services Glasgow reflected a common view that—
boosting SCP levels further is the most effective single tool available for accelerating progress towards Scotland’s child poverty targets by 2030/31.Pre-Budget Scrutiny – SPICe prepared Call for Views Summary
Committee reports
Date published:
2 October 2025
Strengthening committees' effectiveness - Annexe A - Remit for the inquiry and the themes and questions we posed for answer
Evaluation
The Committee will consider how committees currently evaluate their work and whether there are changes or improvements which could be made.
This may include approaches to pre and post legislative scrutiny and considerations of how work is planned to build in evaluation and reflection.
Committee reports
Date published:
19 June 2025
Report on the Scottish Budget process in practice - Futures Committee
We therefore plan to explore the issue further as part of pre-budget 2026-27 scrutiny on Responding to Longer-Term Fiscal Pressures.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
3 March 2025
Scotland's care system for children and young people: subject profile 2025 update - Kinship care
Retrieved from https://www.celcis.org/knowledge-bank/search-bank/inform-kinship-care-briefing
Section 10(2) of the Looked After Children (Scotland) Regulations 2009 defines a kinship carer as “a person who is related to the child” or “a person who is known to the child and with whom the child has a pre-existing relationship”.
Children living in kinship care...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
18 February 2025
Inheritance law in Scotland - 2025 update - Special destinations: a specific approach for land and buildings
To get rid of a special destination (before death) you have to evacuate it, that is, complete a legal process to pre-emptively stop its legal effect.
Committees
Last updated:
28 January 2025
NHS in Scotland 2023
Activity in secondary care has increased in the last year but it remains below pre-pandemic levels and is outpaced by growing demand.
Committee reports
Date published:
17 January 2025
Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland - Section 5 - salmon farm consents and planning
One of the main recommendations was the creation of a new single consenting document for aquaculture and that mandates what all parties (the applicant, regulators, the community, and other statutory consultees) involved in an application are subject to derived from a pre-application consultation prior to submission.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
20 December 2024
Local government finance: Budget 2025-26 and provisional allocations to local authorities - Sources of local authority funding
Sources of local authority funding
Local authorities in Scotland are responsible for delivering a wide range of vitally important services, including pre-school care, primary and secondary education, adult social care, social work, local roads and transport, economic development, housing and planning, environmental protection, waste management, and cultura...
