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Committee reports
Date published:
8 February 2024
Stage 1 Report on the Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill
Recommendations on the general principles of the Bill
Whilst it would have been valuable to have received the detail of the amendments proposed during our Stage 1 deliberations, the majority of the Committee is content at this stage to accept the reassurances given by the Minister in her evidence and the detail provided in the annex of her letters dated 29 ...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
3 December 2020
Adult social care and support in Scotland
Social (and health) care emerged from 'Poor Law' legislation, from as early as 1424 in Scotland .The 'Old Poor Law' dates from 1574, and was the main legislation governing how those who couldn't afford to support themselves and their families should be assisted.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
9 April 2018
Social Security (Scotland) Bill: Consideration prior to Stage 3
This briefing summarises the key issues arising during the passage of the bill to date, and the amendments brought forward at Stage 2.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
25 August 2025
Children (Care, Care Experience and Services Planning) (Scotland) Bill
As explored throughout this briefing, there are a number of proposals for which further consultation is planned to inform guidance to be issued by Scottish Ministers at later, non-specified dates.
Human Economic Cost modelling carried out as part of the Independent Care Review's work found the current care system costs around £942 million per year, while th...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
26 June 2024
Nuisance complaints - some frequently asked questions
Appeals
The person who is served with the notice may appeal to the sheriff court within 21 days of the date the notice was served. Details of the appeal procedures are included in Schedule 3 of the EPA and the regulations made under that Schedule: the Statutory Nuisance (Appeals) (Scotland) Regulations 1996.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
25 June 2024
Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare in Scotland
Hospital management: AI can be used to predict bed demand and find optimal discharge dates to avoid unnecessary discharge delays4Gokhale, S., Taylor, D., Gill, J., Hu, Y., Zeps, N., Lequertier, V., … Enticott, J. (2023).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
10 April 2024
Judicial Factors (Scotland) Bill
Judicial factors have a long history in Scots law, with mention of them in legislation pre-dating the Union of the Parliaments of Scotland and England in 1707.1Scottish Law Commission. (2014).
Committee reports
Date published:
7 November 2023
Pre-Budget Scrutiny 2024-25
Saheliya was concerned about how a human rights-based approach to funding could be delivered, particularly given the reliance on census data, which is 10 years out of date and the census is not accessed by most of its service users as they are scared of authority and are “often illiterate in any language” and have low-level English skills.iSocial Justice an...
Committee reports
Date published:
26 February 2021
Community Empowerment: Taking Stock of Participation Requests and Asset Transfers Four Years On
The ALEO discussion paper for the National Asset Transfer Group’s next meeting in March 2021 (date to be confirmed) will help inform this work.Scottish Government Written Submission
The Committee is concerned by evidence that asset transfer requests can run into a wall, causing frustration and demoralisation, when it turns out that the asset might belong to...
Committee reports
Date published:
21 June 2019
Presumption Against Short Periods of Imprisonment (Scotland) Order 2019
He said—
... we should have a principle stating who should not normally be imprisoned, or what cases should not normally lead to a prison sentence, and that we have a date by which we ensure that there is a transfer of resources.
