social welfare
Answer:
That is largely unknown, but Scotland will be able to take its own course in economic and social development. Choices can be made that are relevant to Scotland rather than in a dominant larger entity with different priorities.
Full answer here: Would independent Scotland be more prosperous?
Tackling The Care Crisis Now
Author / Creator: Common Weal Care Reform Group
Media type: Article
Date published: 2024
There is a co-design process offering a package of care reform options that could be implemented whether or not the National Care Service as proposed goes ahead or before it is established.
Keeping the Promise for Scotland’s children and their families
Author / Creator: David Anderson
Media type: Article
Date published: 2024
The partial failure and potential success of past and present plans to implement recommendations for the Scottish care system
Social security in a devolved UK: realities, risks & opportunities for families
Author / Creator: Hayley Bennett
Media type: Blog
Date published: 2024
We spend more on working-age social security than education, or the police and defence combined (Hoynes et al., 2023), and it is the policy instrument most directly able to reduce poverty.
Building a New Scotland: Social security in an independent Scotland
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Report
Date published: 2024
Social security can be fairer, more dignified and more respectful over the long term.
Welfare, Equality and Social Justice:Scottish Independence and the Dominant Imaginings of the ‘New’ Scotland’
Author / Creator: Gerry Mooney
Media type: Article
Date published: 2016
Issues of equality, social justice and social welfare in the imaginings of an independent Scotland.
Best Place in the World
Author / Creator: David Anderson
Media type: Opinion
Date published:
Many innovative ways to address poverty and trauma have appeared over the last few years, but they are fighting against the tide, battling hard against the odds.
Local Government
Author / Creator: Neil McGarvey
Media type: Book
Date published: 2020
Local councils have a range of political and bugetary pressures with a wide range of welfare, democratic, and cultural roles.
How small independent countries create a better, more equal society
Author / Creator: Believe in Scotland
Media type: Article
Date published: 2021
It has become clear that small, independent countries largely outperform the UK and offer greater security to their citizens. This includes pensions, income distribution and public social spending.
Contesting the austerity and “welfare reform” narrative of the UK Government: Forging a social democratic imaginary in Scotland
Author / Creator: Jay Wiggan
Date published:
The Scottish government fuses nationalism with social wage and social investment concepts. It conjures up images of a prosperous, community led, egalitarian welfare state as a future reality. It recuperates “welfare” as a collective endeavour. It describes austerity as a poor distribution of resources between groups and within the UK as the “problem”.
What can the Scottish Parliament do with new social security powers?
Author / Creator: Paul Spicker
Media type: Assessment report
Date published: February 2016
Scotland will not be able to experiment and to innovate under the current devolution of social security powers.