SCOTLANDBENEFITSDEVOLUTIONThe United Kingdom is a unitary state, and social security benefits are some of the most centralised services in it. The powers of the Scottish Parliament in relation to benefits have been heavily restricted, to the point where they have fewer formal powers than an ...
ScotlandIt has been said that people need the confidence, continuity and trust in the world which comprise ontological security in order to lead happy and fulfilled lives, and furthermore that ontological security can be attained more through owner occupied than rented housing. Ontological security, ...
Our Charter outlines in detail what can be expected from the Scottish Government and Social Security Scotland for anyone accessing Scotland's new social security system. Dignity vow by Social Security Secretary The State Council on Tuesday took up the proposal 'Development of the Social Security Syst...
In Scotland, the disability benefits system was inaccessible and off-putting, often requiring citizens to physically prove the extent of their disabilities during assessment. After an end-to-end process transformation involving significant user research and input, Scotland instituted a new benefits system...
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Among the many problems are "mis-selling," high administrative costs and fundamental difficulty determining the appropriate offset between the reduction in the worker's payment to Social Security and the reduction in that person's Social Security benefits. 展开 ...
s claim to reflect these principles in flagship welfare reforms. The article considers how far a strategic policy approach has been applied in Scotland and draws upon research exploring the response of local leaders to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic to examine what this experience ...
The focus of this study is on two cases: a social enterprise that has been operating for more than three years in a rural community in Scotland, and a public sector body delivering healthcare services in a similar context. The social enterprise is referred to as Active Life (not its real...
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Each nation has jurisdiction over its own care system and each has taken a different path towards introducing a form of risk pooling for social care. Of the factors which are known to create ...
The benefits of Louis’s rule would have been far greater still had he not wasted much money and many lives on endeavors to secure the throne of Naples for his nephew. His foreign acquisitions served his personal glory more than they did the real interests of his country, the imposing edifi...