Reading Time: 5 minutesOn 31 March 2026, more than 19,000 households, including over 10,700 children, were living in temporary homeless accommodation in Scotland. This represented increases of 10%
Category: People & Communities
Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Social Housing in Scotland
Reading Time: 7 minutesAsylum seekers are not entitled to homeless assistance; and refugees do not get special priority for homelessness assistance or social housing in Scotland.
The recent increase in refugee homelessness applications, partly driven by the UK Government fast-track asylum claim processing, has added pressure to some local housing systems, particularly in Glasgow and, to a lesser extent, Edinburgh. This also reflects wider pressures on Scotland’s homelessness and housing services.
New child poverty dashboard published
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFind constituency-level child poverty statistics here: Poverty and deprivation statistics for Scottish Parliament constituencies and other local areas in Scotland
Poverty
Reading Time: < 1 minuteData dashboard with poverty and deprivation statistics for Scottish Parliament constituencies and other local areas in for Scotland
Dashboards
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFind the latest statistics for your constituency or local area. Constituency profiles Key statistics on population, health, housing, poverty, and the labour market Labour marketUnemployment,
Prevention: The “urgent” topic of the last decade
Reading Time: 8 minutesThis blog talks about prevention as a method of delivery of public services. It also introduces some of the challenges with implementing prevention from a resource allocation point of view.
What’s Changing in Scotland’s National Performance Framework and Why It Matters
Reading Time: 6 minutesThis blog sets out what is changing with the National Performance Framework, why the reform matters, and what happens next as the Scottish Government prepares its final proposals for the next administration.
Explainer: what happens to public petitions at the end of a session?
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Scottish Parliament’s public petitions system allows individuals and organisations to submit formal requests for the Parliament to act. The Parliament will go into campaign recess on 26 March, ahead
SPICe Hub: draft Climate Change Plan
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Scottish Government published a draft Climate Change Plan (CCP) on 6 November 2025, marking the start of 120 days of its parliamentary scrutiny (until 5 March).
The ongoing pursuit of ‘prevention’ in health and social care: Two frameworks and a plan
Reading Time: 9 minutesThis blog will consider three health-related strategy documents in turn: the Operational Improvement Plan (OIP), the Population Health Framework (PHF) and the Health and Social