Reading Time: 5 minutes This blog looks at how Scotland is performing against the 81 National Indicators in the National Performance Framework.
Tag: Families and Children
What has happened to the Children (Scotland) Act 2020?
Reading Time: 4 minutes This blog post looks at the Children (Scotland) Act 2020, an important piece of Scottish Government legislation from Session 5 of the Scottish Parliament. For the most part, the Act is unimplemented, and it is unclear when it will be brought fully into force. This is likely to be disappointing to some stakeholders.
The National Care Service – what is happening next? Â
Reading Time: 3 minutes This blog discusses recent developments regarding the National Care Service.
The Health and Wellbeing of Scotland’s Children and Young People in 2022
Reading Time: 6 minutes An introduction to children and young people’s wellbeing in Scotland.
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill – Parliamentary consideration prior to Stage 3
Reading Time: 6 minutes A look at stage 2 of the UNCRC (Incorporation) (Scotland) Bill
SPICe FAQs – Baby Boxes
Reading Time: 4 minutes Common questions and answers about the Scottish Baby Box scheme.
SPICe FAQs: young people, alcohol and the law
Reading Time: 4 minutes A blog drawing together answers to questions SPICe has been asked about young people, alcohol and the law.
RICs: improving Scottish Education through collaboration?
Reading Time: 8 minutes Blog looking at the development of education Regional Improvement Collaboratives.
Twenty years of family law in the Scottish Parliament
Reading Time: 8 minutes A look at 20 years of family law in the Scottish Parliament.
Until death parts us – the Scottish Government’s attempts to reform inheritance law
Reading Time: 4 minutes Civil law (sometimes simply referred to as ‘not criminal law’) is recognised as the geekier end of the Scottish Government’s Justice portfolio. It doesn’t grab