Reading Time: 6 minutes This blog summarises the views of a range of experts on who is most at risk from the pandemic, and how we can protect them.
Tag: Equality
Coronavirus (COVID-19): What can a global pandemic teach us about our food system?
Reading Time: 7 minutes This blog explores the changes to the food system during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) – can we calculate an exit strategy?
Reading Time: 6 minutes This blog looks at how the government might weigh up the huge range of varied issues in front of it when charting the course out of lockdown.
Where does health care end and social care begin? 20 years along the road to integration
Reading Time: 7 minutes This blog looks at the journey to health and social care integration so far
Ending child poverty: the challenge ahead
Reading Time: 5 minutes The latest picture on child poverty The Scottish Government’s latest poverty statistics show that – on the most commonly used measure of poverty – child
International Women’s Day 2019
Reading Time: 4 minutes International Women’s day (IWD) is celebrated on 8 March every year. The Scottish Parliament will be holding a debate focusing on IWD on Thursday 7
What would happen to citizens’ rights in a no deal Brexit?
Reading Time: 4 minutes EU free movement law gives EU citizens the right to live, work and study in other Member States. One of the big Brexit questions is
Prisoner voting – the Scottish Government consults on options for change
Reading Time: 4 minutes On 14 December 2018, the Scottish Government published a consultation with options for giving prisoners the right to vote in local government and Scottish Parliament
Scottish Youth Parliament
Reading Time: 4 minutes As the Year of Young People draws to a close, this blog explores the role and work of the Scottish Youth Parliament (SYP) and highlights
Brexit: Citizens’ Rights
Reading Time: 5 minutes The UK is set to leave the European Union (EU) on 30 March 2019. The draft Withdrawal Agreement (“the agreement”) of 29 March 2018 contains