Reading Time: 7 minutes This blog will investigate localities’ health data. Localities are the smaller areas that make up the geographies of integration authorities.
Health and Social Care integration Part 1: Are Integration Authorities successfully integrating?
Reading Time: 3 minutes This blog will explore the progress of health and social care integration. It will evaluate this progress against the core suite of integration indicators and summarise progress since 2019.
Removing the Universal Credit uplift: what will be the effect on Scottish households?
Reading Time: 5 minutes This blog looks at the impact on Scottish households of the planned removal of the Universal Credit uplift.
SPICe FAQs – COVID-19: international travel and quarantine
Reading Time: < 1 minute This blog looks at managed isolation for international arrivals into the UK.
Can hydrogen drive Scotland to net-zero? Part 2: What are Scotland’s hydrogen energy plans?
Reading Time: 7 minutes This blog outlines how the Scottish Government plans to use hydrogen energy to decarbonise key sectors on the path to net-zero emissions by 2045. This
Can hydrogen drive Scotland to net-zero? Part 1: What is hydrogen energy?
Reading Time: 7 minutes This blog outlines what hydrogen energy is, how it is produced and how it may be used to decarbonise key energy-intensive sectors. It is recommended
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Protection levels
Reading Time: 3 minutes This blog provides a high-level summary of the protection levels and the current restrictions across Scotland.
Scottish Child Payment: where next?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Scottish Child Payment was introduced in February 2021. With further changes planned, this blog looks at its current and potential impact on child poverty.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) – hub for SPICe material
Reading Time: 5 minutes A hub for all SPICe material on coronavirus (COVID-19).
COVID-19 – should we be concerned about high case numbers?
Reading Time: 6 minutes This blog discusses the recent high number of cases of COVID-19 in Scotland and concerns about the lifting of restrictions.