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Official Report
Meeting date:
13 September 2016
Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee 13 September 2016
You touched on the issue of sharing best practice with other organisations.
Official Report
Meeting date:
29 June 2016
Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee 29 June 2016
In the review, we want to look at how we can get best practice everywhere in Scotland.
Official Report
Meeting date:
9 February 2017
Meeting of the Parliament 09 February 2017
Enabling schools to see where there is best practice and to learn from that best practice is already under way.
Official Report
Meeting date:
12 March 2024
Meeting of the Parliament 12 March 2024
home owners and residents in order to protect their privacy and safety, and it reflects engagement with the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service on how best we ensure safety and security.
Official Report
Meeting date:
25 April 2023
Meeting of the Parliament 25 April 2023
Yesterday, the SQA exam diet started, and I wish young people across the country the very best of luck. Of course, the SQA itself is going through a significant and necessary review.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
19 December 2022
Budget 2023-24 - What is in this year’s Equality and Fairer Scotland Budget Statement?
Sex – “Funding for Scottish Child Payment will help eligible parents on low incomes, whilst Best Start Grant and Best Start Foods will also support low income families with a pregnant woman or young children”.
Committee reports
Date published:
2 July 2019
Under Construction: Building the future of the sector in Scotland - Public sector procurement skills
The problems occur when an authority that is responsible for a major procurement does not follow the guidance or the best practice that we have recommended.
Last updated:
2 October 2025
SPICe Ecocide Bill CfV Summary
The Law Society of Scotland also noted the very limited use of the Environmental Liability (Scotland) Regulations 2009 to date, as “the closest comparator from an enforcement and sanctions perspective” and said “It would be useful to review the extent of these Regulations’ use and impact as part of considering how best to integrate the provisions of the Bil...
Last updated:
27 January 2025
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*S6M-16193 Tess White: Grampian Hospital Radio Shortlisted for Five Awards—That the Parliament congratulates Grampian Hospital Radio on being shortlisted for five awards at the Hospital Broadcasting Association Awards 2025; understands that Grampian Hospital Radio has been nominated in the categories of Male Presenter of the Year, Specialist Programme Backstage, Best Newcomer, Best Special Event and Best Speech Package; notes that the Hospital Broadcasting Association is a national organisation that supports and promotes hospital broadcasting across the UK; recognises that Grampian Hospital Radio is a registered charity, which is run by volunteers, and, since 1981, has been broadcasting to patients of NHS Grampian in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen Maternity Hospital and Roxburghe House, and wishes those shortlisted every success at the Hospital Broadcasting Association Awards ceremony in April 2025.
Last updated:
14 November 2024
Public Bodies Joint Working Act with NCS amendment markup
Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014, marked-up to reflect National Care Service (Scotland) Bill draft amendments (June 2024) Strategic planning etc. 29 Requirement to prepare strategic plans (1) The integration authority National Care Service local board for the area of a local authority must prepare strategic plans in accordance with this section. (2) A strategic plan is a document— (za) setting out the board’s assessment of the needs of the population in the area of the local authority that are to be met through the carrying out of the integration functions over the period of the plan, (a) setting out the arrangements for the carrying out of the integration functions for the area of the local authority over the period of the plan, (b) setting out how those arrangements are intended to achieve, or contribute to achieving, the national health and wellbeing outcomes— (i) reflect the National Care Service principles, (ii) conform to the National Care Service strategy, (iii) are intended to achieve, or contribute to achieving, the national health and wellbeing outcomes, and (c) including such other material as the integration authority board thinks fit. (3) The provision required to be included in a strategic plan by virtue of subsection (2)(a) is to include provision— (a) dividing the area of the local authority into two or more localities, and (b) setting out separately arrangements for the carrying out of the integration functions in relation to each such locality. (4) If the functions of the integration authority board are to be delegated to the authority it before the day prescribed under section 9(3) or, as the case may be, section 15(2), the first strategic plan must specify the day on which functions are to be delegated to the authority. (5) The first strategic plan of an integration authority a board is to be prepared before the integration start day. (6) In this section, “integration start day” means— (a) in relation to an integration authority which is an integration joint board, the day on which functions are delegated to the authority board by virtue of subsection (4) or, as the case may be, section 9(3), (b) in relation to any other integration authority, the day on which functions are delegated by virtue of subsection (4) or, as the case may be, section 15(2) to, or to the constituent authorities of, the integration authority. 30 Considerations in preparing strategic plan (1) This section applies where an integration authority a National Care Service local board in relation to the area of a local authority is preparing a strategic plan. (2) The integration authority board must have regard to— (a) the integration delivery principles (see section 31), and Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014, marked-up to reflect National Care Service (Scotland) Bill draft amendments (June 2024) (aa) the National Care Service principles, (ab) the National Care Service strategy, and (b) the national health and wellbeing outcomes (see section 5). (3) The integration authority board must have regard to the effect which any arrangements which it is considering setting out in the strategic plan in pursuance of section 29(2)(a) may have on services, facilities or resources— (a) used in relation to arrangements set out in pursuance of that section in a strategic plan prepared by another integration authority National Care Service local board, (b) which would be used in relation to arrangements which another integration authority National Care Service local board is considering setting out in pursuance of that section in a strategic plan which it is preparing. (4) The references in subsections (3)(a) and (b) to a strategic plan are to a strategic plan relating to the same period as, or relating to part of the same period as, the strategic plan which is being prepared by the integration authority board. 31 Integration delivery principles (1) The integration delivery principles are— (a) that the main purpose of services which are provided in pursuance of integration functions is to improve the wellbeing of service-users, (b) that, in so far as consistent with the main purpose, those services should be provided in a way which, so far as possible— (i) is integrated from the point of view of service-users, (ii) takes account of the particular needs of different service-users, (iii) takes account of the particular needs of service-users in different parts of the area in which the service is being provided, (iv) takes account of the particular characteristics and circumstances of different service-users, (v) respects the rights of service-users, (vi) takes account of the dignity of service-users, (vii) takes account of the participation by service-users in the community in which service-users live, (viii) protects and improves the safety of service-users, (ix) improves the quality of the service, (x) is planned and led locally in a way which is engaged with the community (including in particular service-users, those who look after service-users and those who are involved in the provision of health or social care), (xi) best...
