Brexit: Balancing Scotland, the UK and the EU
Report by Ken Gibb from a Brexit event featuring a keynote speech from the First Minister.
Brexit and Public Policy Capacity
The challenge of dealing with Brexit when there is an underlying problem with policy capacity and huge implications for the devolved governments.
Practitioner Blog: Johanna Spiers, Welfare Reform Third Sector Co-ordinator, GCVS
Description of a project experimenting with approaches ‘To increase citizen participation in the welfare reform agenda’.
Tackling Britain’s Misleading Benefit Sanctions Statistics
A review of the effectiveness of sanctions’, i.e. withdrawals of benefit, against claimants of Jobseeker’s Allowance.
Credit where it’s due?
Martin Taulbut, Public Health Information Manager, NHS Health Scotland, discusses Universal Credit, public health and the Scottish labour market.
The Choice Between Two Unions
Professor Michael Russell MSP gives his first reaction to the outcome of the European Referendum and its implications for Scotland.
Forget Project Fear, Time to hear the Positive Case for the EU
Professor Anton Muscatelli, economist and Principal of the University of Glasgow, writing in a personal capacity, makes the positive case for European Union membership.
Trade and the EU Referendum: Why the Leave campaign has simply got it wrong
The EU Leave campaign’s arguments about trade are based on out-dated, irrelevant assumptions and models and following them would be catastrophic for the UK economy.
Working with the real welfare reform experts
How people with lived experience of the welfare system can become more involved in the design, development and delivery of the services they use.
‘Five Years, that’s all we’ve got’: the Scottish election and challenges for the new Parliament
With a minority administration in Holyrood, will one consequence be more focus on the Scottish Parliament committees? asks Ken Gibb.