Image 5.1: Volunteer Edinburgh’s Community Taskforce volunteers Note: Volunteers supported people impacted by COVID-19 with practical tasks such as shopping delivery and dog walking 5.1 Introduction Volunteering in Scotland, as in all nations of the UK, has been significantly impacted by COVID-19. As restrictions and subsequent lockdowns were implemented (see Image 5.1 ), organisations and individuals came together at pace to develop solutions and support those most in need. A new ‘can do’ attitude brushed aside a lot of the bureaucratic and
89 Scotland FOUR Scotland Emma’s story Emma was born in 1996 and, when this book was written in 2003, she was seven-years-old. She lives with her mother (Anne), her father (Mike) and older sister (Julia) in a village in the north of Scotland with a population of just under 1,000. She currently attends the local primary school where she is in her third year of compulsory schooling. Emma’s care and education, from birth to seven years Mike works at the local fishery, which can involve long hours, Anne works full time at the village library. They are not well off
Changing Scotland uses longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey to improve our knowledge and understanding of the impact of devolution on the lives of people in Scotland. It is the first time that BHPS data has been used in this way.
The book provides a detailed examination of social, economic, demographic and political differences, especially those involving dynamic behaviour such as residential mobility, unemployment duration, job mobility, income inequality, poverty, health and deprivation, national identity, family structure and other aspects of individual’s lives as they change over time. This data provides a ‘baseline’ for policy formulation and for analysing the impact of subsequent differential developments arising out of devolution.
The book is also an invaluable resource for establishing pre-existing differences between England and Scotland and evaluating the impact of policy initiatives by the Scottish Executive.
49 3 Scottish Gang Literature Chapter 2 outlined gang research in three main ways. These were regarding context, structure and literature. Yet, while this discussion was placed in the wider US, European and, finally, UK context, Scottish gang literature was excluded. This is because I did not want to present the complex picture of what has been happening in Scottish gang literature without first setting the background in which it can be understood. This is particularly important given that this book is not just for the established academic. Yet, this
59 FOUR A comparison: criminalised women in Scotland Michele Burman, Margaret Malloch and Gill McIvor Introduction Between 1995 and 2002, a total of 11 women killed themselves in what was then Scotland’s only prison for women, HMP and YOI Cornton Vale. The deaths, and the seeming frequency with which one followed another (seven women died within a 30-month period between 1995 and 1997; and two women died in one week in 2001), sent shock waves through the Scottish criminal justice system and wider Scottish society. Although the subsequent fatal accident
Social justice and social policy in Scotland offers a critical engagement with the state of social policy in one of the devolved nations of the UK, a decade after the introduction of devolution.
Promoting greater social justice has been held up as a key vision of successive Scottish administrations since devolution began. It is argued throughout this important book that the analysis of Scottish social policy must therefore be located in wider debates around social injustice as well as about how the devolution process affects the making, implementation and impact of social policy.
Social justice and social policy in Scotland focuses on a diverse range of topics and issues, including income inequalities, work and welfare, criminal justice, housing, education, health and poverty, each reflecting the themes of social inequality and social justice.
This book will be essential reading for academics, researchers, policy makers and practitioners as well as students of social policy and of society in Scotland and other devolved nations.
Exploring social policy in the ‘new’ Scotland is the first book to integrate the description and analysis of social policy in Scotland since devolution in 1999. It has been designed to support the delivery of social policy and related courses in Scotland itself but also to appeal to students on social policy, politics, sociology, public policy and regional studies courses across the United Kingdom, on which devolution and its impact are examined.
The contributors are all highly experienced researchers and academics from across the social sciences. The book therefore presents a variety of perspectives and approaches with which to consider the key issues. Up-to-date material on a wide range of social policy topics, including work and welfare, health and social work, criminal justice, education, and urban policy, means that the book will be valuable to academics, researchers, policy makers and practitioners, as well as students.
I am a gardener who happens to have dementia. I live on the Black Isle of Scotland, on a remote croft 44 km from the nearest city, Inverness. I moved to the Black Isle for health reasons around 2002, which coincided with the time of receiving a diagnosis of dementia. I rented properties in the first instance and then met someone interested in gardening and got the ‘gardening bug’. I went on to buy a property with 1.7 hectares of land. I began to grow vegetables – amazing, lovely produce – and ate what I grew. In my early days living on the Black Isle, I had
21 TWO Seeing knowledge in mental health in Scotland Jennifer Smith-Merry Introduction The research I present here uses the embodied–inscribed–enacted framework to interrogate data gathered from a large qualitative research project that has sought to understand the way that knowledge functions in relation to Scottish mental health policy. This formed the first part of the work conducted by the Scottish health team under the KNOWandPOL project, which aimed to understand the different dimensions of knowledge use in relation to policymaking across Europe
465 Policy & Politics • vol 44 • no 3 • 465–83 • © Policy Press 2016 • #PPjnl @policy_politics Print ISSN 0305 5736 • Online ISSN 1470 8442 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/030557314X13948073245907 Committee scrutiny in Scotland: a comparative and bi-constitutional perspective Michael Cole, m.s.cole@outlook.com, University of Liverpool, UK This article addreses scrutiny undertaken through departmental committees at the Scottish Parliament. The analysis is addressed through four distinctive phases – choice, evidence-gathering, evaluation and outputs – developed
