Scottish Budget
Details of the Scottish Government's spending plans.
Equality and rights
Policies
- Access to justice
- Armed forces and veterans community
- Disabled people
- Employment support
- Faith and belief
- Gender equality
- Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC)
- Gypsy/Travellers
- Human rights
- Human trafficking
- LGBTI and gender recognition
- Languages
- Poverty and social justice
- Race equality
- Refugees and asylum seekers
- Social security
- Victims and witnesses
- Violence against women and girls (VAWG)
Featured
Women's health plan
The Women’s Health Plan underpins actions to improve women’s health inequalities by raising awareness around women’s health, improving access to health care and reducing inequalities in health outcomes for girls and women, both for sex-specific conditions and in women’s general health.
Programme for Government
All you need to know about our Programme for Government.
Publications
Equally Safe: Scotland's Strategy for Preventing and Eradicating Violence Against Women and Girls
07 December 2023
Equally safe strategy: easy read
07 December 2023
The Welfare Foods (Best Start Foods) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2023: Childrens Rights and Wellbeing Impact Assessment - Impact and Compatibility
07 December 2023
Consultations
Domestic homicide reviews: consultation analysis
06 December 2023
British Sign Language (BSL) National Plan 2023-2029 Analysis of consultation responses
01 December 2023
Access to information rights consultation: response
28 November 2023
Statistics and research
Building a New Scotland: social security in an independent Scotland - easy read
06 December 2023
Findings from a Peer Support and Learning Group pilot to support Trauma Informed Practice in Adult Social Care
30 November 2023
Mapping Of Professional Qualification Routes and Continuous Professional Learning Opportunities relating to Psychological Trauma, in the Children and Families Workforce
30 November 2023
News
Advancing children’s rights in law
Amended UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Bill passed.
Social Security in an independent Scotland
Plans to deliver a fairer system with more positive outcomes.
Scottish Child Payment helping families of more than 323,000 children
Total spending on five family payments passes £596 million
People and directorates
Cabinet Secretary and Ministers
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Jenny Gilruth MSP
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Emma Roddick MSP
Directorates
- Chief Medical Officer Directorate
- Children and Families Directorate
- Early Learning and Childcare Directorate
- Equality, Inclusion and Human Rights Directorate
- Justice Directorate
- Learning Directorate
- Local Government and Housing Directorate
- Safer Communities Directorate
- Social Security Directorate
- Tackling Child Poverty and Social Justice Directorate
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