Responses and submissions to consultations from the Scottish Parliament, the Scottish Government and other bodies, by the UNISON Scotland Bargaining and Campaigns Team

Health, Social Care and Sport Committee Pre-Budget Scrutiny 2023-24
This is the UNISON Scotland response to the Scottish Parliament's Health, Social Care and Sport Committee's Call for Views as part of its Pre-Budget Scrutiny. UNISON’s priority areas of focus ... Read More

National Care Service (Scotland) Bill Stage 1 Scrutiny: UNISON evidence
UNISON has submitted its Evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s call for views on The National Care Service (Scotland) Bill. UNISON is quite clear that the Bill is unfit for purpose ... Read More

Scotland’s public finances, cost of living impact & public service reform
This is UNISON Scotland's response to the Scottish Parliament Finance and Public Administration Committee's Call for Views as part of its Pre Budget Scrutiny. The Committee is focusing on three ... Read More

A New Deal for Tenants
This is UNISON's response to the proposed reform of the private rented sector. High private rents and house prices are pricing public service workers out of housing. Our younger members especially ... Read More

SSSC: A Register for the Future
This is UNISON's response to the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) consultation on proposed changes to registration and qualifications. While the consultation focuses on some very specific reforms, these measures ... Read More

National Public Energy Agency
UNISON supports the creation of a new public agency to direct the roll-out of heating decarbonisation and energy efficiency. Strategic planning, support and funding is needed now. The key question ... Read More

Consultation on a National Care Service
This is the UNISON Scotland response to the Scottish Government proposals to set up a National Care Service. Whilst welcoming some of the proposals which the Scottish Government say a ... Read More

Implementing Part 3 of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2019: Bus Services
UNISON believes we deserve a world class bus system. But we will only get this by rejecting deregulation and privatisation and taking a radically different approach to how we provide ... Read More

Workplace Parking Licensing Consultation on Regulations & Guidance
This is the UNISON Response to the Scottish Government Transport Scotland Workplace Parking Licensing Consultation on Regulations & Guidance. UNISON Scotland has major concerns about Workplace Parking Levys (WPLs). Transport ... Read More

Human Rights & Equalities Committee – Impact of Covid 19
UNISON Scotland contributed the Equalities and Human Rights Committee inquiry into the pandemic. Our submission focussed on the appalling situation in social care. The absence of human rights in social ... Read More
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