About the Bill
The Bill is being introduced to reduce the risk to life from unsafe cladding on people’s homes.
The Bill gives powers to Scottish Ministers to assess and remediate certain types of buildings with unsafe cladding. Scottish Ministers will need to record these assessments and any remediation works completed in a register. Remediate means to take action towards fixing problems.
The Bill also allows Scottish Ministers to create a responsible developers...More
The Scottish Government is proposing a new law which would require the police to have a statutory code of ethics, make changes relating to the handling of police conduct, increase the functions of the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (the PIRC) and introduce an advisory board for the Commissioner.
The Scottish Government states that the Bill is an amending bill and amends the two main pieces of legislation in the area of Scottish policing law (the Police, Public Order and...More
About the Bill
Some types of wall cladding on the outside of buildings can cause fire safety risks.
This Bill gives Scottish Ministers powers to carry out assessments to find out if the cladding on buildings is safe. If not, Ministers can then organise repairs. If necessary, Ministers can also require people to move out of the buildings until the work needed is done.
The Bill applies to only some buildings. For a building to be assessed under the Bill, the building must have...More
A note on language
The wording used in this call for views mirrors the language of the documents accompanying the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Scotland Bill. As the Policy Memorandum states, terms such as “people who access or provide services”, “anti-abortion”, and “protester” were used to describe actions rather than motivations.
About the Bill
The Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Scotland Bill proposes to create “safe access zones ”...More
About the Bill
This Member’s Bill has been introduced by Gillian Mackay MSP . It creates safe access zones around all places providing abortion services in Scotland.
The Bill makes it an offence for a person in a safe access zone to act in certain ways. This includes any behaviour that might stop a person from getting an abortion or make them feel scared or upset about getting an abortion.
It would also be an offence if a person behaved in these ways in other...More
The Education, Children and Young People Committee has agreed to undertake an inquiry into Additional Support for Learning (ASL).
The Committee want to know people’s experiences of how services are provided. They want to hear views from a range of people including parents, teachers, support staff, carers, pupils and organisations.
Find out more about the inquiry .
Implementation of the presumption of mainstreaming
The presumption in favour of ‘mainstream...More
The Education, Children and Young People Committee is holding an inquiry into Additional Support for Learning (ASL). The inquiry will focus on the following themes:
The implementation of the presumption of mainstreaming. This means that, where possible, children and young people with additional support needs should be educated in mainstream schools alongside other pupils, rather than in special schools or units
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on additional support for...More
Background
The Health, Social Care and Sport Committee is undertaking an inquiry into how the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013 has worked since it came into force.
The Committee wants to find out from you about whether you feel the Act is producing the expected outcomes, to what extent, and if not, why not?
What is the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013?
The main provisions of the Act came into effect in April 2014.
The Act...More
Background
The Health, Social Care and Sport Committee is undertaking an inquiry into how the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013 has worked since it came into force.
The Committee wants to find out from you about whether you feel the Act is producing the expected outcomes, to what extent, and if not, why not?
What is the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013?
The main provisions of the Act came into effect in April 2014.
...More
The Scotland Act 2016 set in process a change to how social security is delivered in Scotland:
it devolved 11 existing social security benefits from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to Scotland;
it gave new powers to the Scottish Government to make top-up payments to benefits reserved to the UK Government.
In 2018, The Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018 (the 2018 Act) established a legal framework for a new Scottish social security system . It created the...More
About the Bill
The Bill makes changes to the Scottish social security system, including:
allowing the Scottish Government to provide care experience assistance and changing the way rules are made for the Scottish Child Payment;
changing the processes for making decisions about social security assistance in Scotland;
changing the processes where people must pay back assistance received by mistake, and providing that in certain situations a person’s...More