Inside the Digital Kiosks Moving Onto Scotland’s Streets
Planning applications across Scotland describe communications kiosks equipped with defibrillators and advertising screens. Behind that description is a privately operated platform capable of combining telephony, public Wi-Fi, digital information, commercial advertising and mobile-network infrastructure. On Wednesday, 23 September, West Lothian
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John Swinney Signed Scotland’s Local-Integration Reform in 2011. Now He Is Redrawing the System
Fifteen years after putting his name to a reform programme built around local integration, John Swinney leads plans for two strategic health boards, fewer national bodies, six to ten regional authorities and 120 to 160 community authorities. The same politician who signed the Scottish Government’s response to the Christie Commission,
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The Great Consolidation of Scotland’s Public Bodies
Scotland’s Public-Sector Reorganisation Now Reaches Local Government Scotland’s public administration is entering a five-year reorganisation affecting health boards, councils, environmental agencies, transport bodies, regulators, public records, corporate services and digital systems. A proposal published on 21 September has now added the clearest local-government model yet: Scotland’s existing arrangements could be
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A new NHS Scotland contract will continue specialist pelvic mesh removal treatment for women living with complications from procedures that
Westminster Set India Trade Terms as More Than Half of Scotland’s £3bn Trade Projection Flows From India to Scotland
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Scotland, Wales and Ireland’s Nationalist Movements Join Forces in Challenge to Westminster Rule
SNP, Plaid Cymru and Sinn Féin sign Cardiff pact declaring ‘constitutional change is coming’ The leaders of the SNP, Plaid
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Scotland Plans 150,000 Apprenticeships. Parliament Has Reopened the Question of Where the Money Goes
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Scotland Is Preparing to Put Legal Price Ceilings on Food, Potentially Selecting Imported Food Over Scottish Food
The Scottish Government has now published the first detailed framework for statutory controls on the price of essential food. What
Scotland Is Building A Major Projects Office. What Will Change?
The Scottish Government has announced a new Major Projects Office to accelerate nationally significant investment in housing, energy and other
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