The Scottish Parliament examines what the Scottish Government is doing, makes new laws on devolved matters and debates the issues of the day. Latest updates What's on in Parliament Catch up on recent business There are lots of ways to catch up on what's been happening recently at Holyrood:...
Hundreds of people protested against gender recognition legislation proposed by the Scottish government. Nicola Sturgeon has said the aim is to make the existing process "less degrading, intrusive and traumatic". Inside the parliament a committee of MSPs backed the general principles of the Gender...
One certainly is surprised why the Scottish government should have opposed it at all?One way or another I don’t see that case being settled any time soon, it will in all probability end up in the Supreme Court. The Holyrood committee investigating the Salmond affair finds itself blocked at...
The shortfall between government income and expenditure has multiple explanations, not least, the cost of Covid, on which an unbudgeted £200 billion was spent, partly on unusable PPE provided by the likes of Michelle Mone’s husband and partly on a non-functional Test-and-Trace system costi...
“The EIS has noted the UK government’s decision to prioritise education, and calls upon the Scottish government to take a similar stance.” The union added thatBarnett-consequential fundingto Scotland from the Budget represented “an additional £3.4 billion, providing a real-terms increase in...
government was welcomed by delegates but the rise of Reform UK and the threat of the far-right as witnessed by the racist riots in early August clearly framed much of the conference agenda. Motions on the far right, challenging the hostile environment and narratives of racism with the ...
it was a referendum on the Scottish Government, and a condemnatory verdict was delivered. Few of the people, and it is they who matter, have any faith that the ones who have run a failed government can, by discovering some hitherto unknown ability, take its governance performance to a bet...
In addition, the increased numbers of executions in the late 1740s and 1750s can be placed within the wider context of the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion and government attempts to establish long-term stability. By the late eighteenth century, the area had ceased to be a concern ...
April 17, 2023, 17.30Committee Room 2, Caird Hall, Dundee Join Scottish Union Learning at our Congress Fringe meeting to hear how unions are delivering Fair Work in workplaces across Scotland through union-led learning and skills programmes. Data Detox April 13, 2023, 10.00 – 12.00Online, MS...
such as bathing, using the toilet and getting dressed rather than providing social care in its wider sense which would include support to stay active and participate in activities (Scottish Government2021). The nursing staff wrote the care plans, and the external carers implemented them. The ...