Thursday 29/01/2015
Consultation responses to Good Practice Principles for Community Benefits from onshore renewables. Community benefits offer a unique and unprecedented opportunity to communities across Scotland. Scottish Government recognises that many developers have individual company policies and approaches which work well to deliver community benefits, and this guidance is intended to share and build upon the progress in the field to date for forthcoming operational projects.
Sunday 03/08/2014
Scotland’s referendum on 18 September 2014 is a choice between two futures.
Wednesday 12/02/2014
An extract of Scotland's Future, underlining our commitment to the NHS as a publicly-owned and operated service, free at point of need.
Tuesday 31/12/2013
The Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer 2012
A document advising on what help may be avaialble with NHS costs such as dental or optical costs
Friday 27/12/2013
An analysis of all responses received on the implementation in Scotland of Council Regulation (EC) 1099/2009 on the protection of animals at the time of killing.
Guidance on the requirements in relation to applications for planning permission
Guidance on the procedural requirements relating to appeals made to the Scottish Ministers in various planning consent and enforcement cases.
A Circular providing guidance on the the requirements on delegating decisions on planning applications for local development and the related review of decisions
A Circular containing guidance on the legislative procedural requirements relating to the preparation of development plans in Scotland.
This consultation is on the possible introduction of compulsory microchipping for dogs in Scotland and other measures to encourage responsible dog ownership with the aim of improving the safety of the public from dangerous and out of control dogs.
Tuesday 24/12/2013
Anlysis of responses report
The report uses qualitative longitudinal research within 21 third sector organisations to investigate their responses to the opportunities and challenges of the changing public services landscape in Scotland between 2009 - 2013. It builds upon the earlier reports on each of the first three years of the project.
The report uses qualitative longitudinal research within 21 third sector organisations to investigate their responses to the opportunities and challenges of the changing public services landscape in Scotland between 2009 - 2013. It builds upon the earlier reports on each of the first three years of the project.
Report following the consultation on the Draft Scottish Marine Regions Order 2013.
Monday 23/12/2013
Full responses to the Planning Scotland's Seas Marine Protected Areas Consultation from organisations and individuals that have provided their permission to publish their reponses.
A consultation on a draft Mental Health Bill
The policy references new legislation that impacts on equality, diversity and human rights of the individual. It contains a model policy that sets out the commitment to the principles of equality, diversity and human rights in employment and advocates the approach to be followed in order to ensure that such principles are consistently met.
The analysis and report on the responses which were received to the consultation on the revised Independent Advocacy - Guide for Commissioner
This report presents the outcomes of the Open Data Consultancy study that Swirrl IT Limited was commissioned to carry out for the Scottish Government from September to November 2013.
‘Open Data’ is data that is accessible to anyone (usually via the internet), in a machine readable form, free of restriction on use. Adoption of this approach to information sharing is growing in the public sector, with anticipated benefits for transparency, efficiency of government and economic growth.