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.
Category: Equalities
Guest blog: How to achieve green recovery from COVID-19? Expert views, and their alignment with Scottish Government proposals
Reading Time: 7 minutes This blog summarises recent research as part of a SPICe fellowship which investigated policies and interventions that experts agree should form part of a green recovery from COVID-19.
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.
Contact-tracing apps and coronavirus (COVID-19)
Reading Time: 5 minutes This blog takes a brief look at some of the main issues linked to mobile phone apps which aim to trace the contacts of people who have COVID-19.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Human Rights
Reading Time: 5 minutes This blog considers some of the human rights impacts of the emergency legislation brought in to deal with the coronavirus
New Rules on Housing Adaptations
Reading Time: 3 minutes This blog explains the changes brought about by new regulations (the Relevant Adjustments to Common Parts (Disabled Persons) (Scotland) Regulations 2020) which mean that a
Stalling and declining life expectancy in Scotland
Reading Time: 5 minutes A look at life expectancy in Scotland.
What has the Scottish Parliament done for equality?
Reading Time: 10 minutes A look at 20 years of equality
Moving on: is Serco’s lock-changing policy legal?
Reading Time: 4 minutes This blog looks at a recent Court of Session case on whether it is legal to change the locks of asylum seekers when their asylum claims are refused
Guest blog – Levelling the Playing Field: young women’s relationship with sport and physical activity
Reading Time: 6 minutes The Young Women Lead Committee share highlights from their report on young women’s relationship with sport and physical activity.