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In two separate cases in which my colleague and I are involved, we cannot get teachers to appear as witnesses for the parents, and we now have to get citations for them.
Superintendent Graeme Gallie, referring to "Act Don’t React" training said:
[It] looks at different elements of how you engage with an individual to de-escalate a situation, but also to get to the nub of what is driving the situation that you are faced with.
Committee reports
Date published:
27 February 2026
If a manufacturer wants to sell more non-ZEVs than the target, they will need to either get more allowances (by trading) or pay a ‘compliance payment’."
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The Cabinet Secretary told the Committee “we have very much focused on getting two-year pay deals as part of the 9% pay policy, and we have done that successfully”, adding “that brings a level of certainty to those who provide public services that there is now a space to talk to the unions and workforces about transformation rather than it j...
The Commissioner went on to say:
I am quite clear that the stakeholders need to work together on different sectors, because it is not going to be a case of one size fitting all. When we start to get people together, it will be a case of asking what they are looking for in order to find a way forward.
Committee reports
Date published:
21 December 2025
Some participants with lived experience, who attended the Committee’s informal engagement session, regarded the use of a panel of experts as positive and a better alternative to groups of lawyers having to get acquainted with very specialised information (for example, the requirements of hospital ventilation)3Finance and Public Administration Committee. (20...
Committee reports
Date published:
19 December 2025
The Scottish Crofting Federation said “there is a big problem brewing here, which we need to get a grip of”.
Members of the Committee raised these concerns with the Minister on 12 November 2025.
The instrument extends the period a carer continues to get support after the death of a cared for person from 8 to 12 weeks; removes the requirement for carers to have been providing care for at least 14 or 22 of the past 26 weeks to become entitled to continue to be paid during a temporary break in care, and provides for the extension of eligibility for Yo...
Committee reports
Date published:
30 September 2025
Problems in relation to the cost, effectiveness and design of the current system was highlighted in evidence to the Committee by some stakeholders who welcomed the removal of the VDL to remove barriers to get wild venison to market. Scottish Environment LINK said the current system was “quite burdensome”, noting that many producers are currently working to ...
Committee reports
Date published:
30 September 2025
There is a tension around the fact that, if we do not do things to deal with climate change, the biodiversity crisis will only get worse. We know that climate change is the worst enemy at the moment, but we do not have the scientific evidence to give us complete clarity about the cumulative effects of that level of offshore wind development and that amount...