By Nick Bostock on the 29 November 2024 The Scottish government has promised an extra £13.6m to boost GP recruitment in the current financial year - and warned it was 'completely unacceptable' for practices to bear the brunt of higher employer national insurance costs from April....
Setting out his first programme for government in the Scottish Parliament yesterday, Mr Swinney said his government’s goal was “not just to keep some children out of poverty, or only to make child poverty less acute” but to “lift every child in Scotland who is in poverty out of it”...
In September, the Programme for Government suggested that free school meals would be offered to all pupils from 2026, although it was unclear if this would be before or after the parliamentary elections due to take place in May that year. Today’s Budget document makes no mention of when fre...
SCOT recognises the significant local challenges and their roots in the Scottish, UK and global context. Health systems across the globe continue to attempt to recovery from a once in a century event. SCOT welcomes the openness of the Scottish Government in its engagement with the Scottish Orthopa...
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), run by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), is the largest regular investigation of school students' attainment globally. It has been conducted usually every three years since 2006, measuring attainment ...
3 Dec 2024 at 2:43pm So things are getting pretty strange. Polling in Scotland, the UK and Wales in the last few days has shown Great Britain taking a fairly heavy swerve to the right after just five months of Sir Keir Starmer’s government. Labour now lead Reform (who have five sea...
“We welcome, through ongoing conversations and the Programme for Government, the Scottish Government’s recent commitment to systemic changes across the housing landscape, including planning and investment, but clearly urgent action and pace is needed to deliver on this intent...
Homelessness is a growing crisis in Scotland, with over 40,000 applications for assistance made in 2022-23, the highest in over a decade. In May 2024, the Scottish Government declared a housing emergency, responding to the stark need for more affordable and safe housing. At the fo...
8 July 2024 Homes for Scotland responsetoChancellor’s speech on housing and planning Responding to the speech given by the Chancellor today, Homes for Scotland Chief Executive Jane Wood said: “It is very encouraging to see the new UK government placing a major emphasis on housing delivery and...
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