Reading Time: 5 minutes This blog considers some of the human rights impacts of the emergency legislation brought in to deal with the coronavirus
Category: People & Communities
New Challenges for a Just Transition? COVID-19 and Green Pathways to Recovery
Reading Time: 5 minutes Background This blog sets out recent developments in approaches to tackling climate change and explores some of the emerging thinking about how economic and societal
Coronavirus (COVID-19): How are deaths counted?
Reading Time: 4 minutes This blog looks at how deaths during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic have been certified, recorded and reported and discusses death rates and excess mortality.
Staying connected: broadband and Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Reading Time: 4 minutes This blog looks at the importance of connectivity, especially broadband, to Scottish households during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.
Coronavirus (Scotland) Bill – SPICe Briefing
Reading Time: 32 minutes This extended blogpost provides briefing for MSPs and other interested parties ahead of parliamentary consideration of the Coronavirus (Scotland) Bill on 1 April 2020.
R100: Moving (slowly) towards superfast broadband
Reading Time: 5 minutes R100 plans to deliver superfast broadband to every home and business in Scotland. This blog looks at recent developments around the R100 programme.