Legislative Scrutiny, Co-Ordination and the Social Security Advisory Committee: From System Coherence to Scottish Devolutiondoi:10.2139/ssrn.3523935social securitydevolutionoversightScotlandscrutinyThis article examines the parliamentary processes available to scrutinise draft social security regulations in the UK,...
Scottish Government (2021) Prison population: social care needs. https://www.gov.scot/publications/understanding-social-care-support-needs-scotlands-prison-population/pages/2/ Scottish Government (2017a) Health and Social Care Standards: my support, my life. https://www.gov.scot/publications/health...
Alex Allan started his contribution by offering a little bit of history about the ‘rather strange document’ that is theMinisterial Code. Something similar to the Code has been in place since the Attlee government, but perhaps the most significant changes came in 1995 when the Committee on Stan...
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...
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...
“…but government, Universities, charities, I would’nae have a problem if they were behind it but I think the drug companies, I would step back from that” (Female, patient focus group 6). Within these public organisations patients would prefer access to their data to be controlled: “I...
The Scottish Government continues to seek a route to a second independence referendum, however, it is unclear whether such a referendum will ultimately occur, what the outcome might be should it occur, and if a referendum occurred and Scotland voted to leave the UK, what Scotland's future ...
This is a very contentious issue. In 1997, in the early days of planning, a figure of £40 million of government money was set aside for the project. This amount remained static until June 1999, when the responsibility for the project was handed over to the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate...
The term ‘social distancing’ is used within this paper to reflect the terminology first used by the Scottish Government during the pandemic but refers to the need to physically distance from people. Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies have demonstrated the negative impacts of loneliness, social...
employability, and well-being. The diversity and nature of these themes indicates that DTPs have considerable potential to engage and benefit those individuals with multiple needs, such as young offenders, and ultimately to achieve positive long-term outcomes with significant social, health, and econom...