"The Scottish Government has not “paused” funding for the UN relief agency in #Gaza despite media reports, Humza Yousaf has said... after the BBC reported that the Scottish Government had cut aid to #UNRWA."
“We will always seek to do more where we can [and] urge others to continue to provide aid to the people of Gaza.”
#channel4 news gives an overview of the #DoctorsStrikes in the UK nations, yet somehow manages to ignore the fact that there's no strike in #Scotland because #ScottishGovernment sat down and negotiated. Tories won't respect #Doctors just as they don't respect the rest of us #GTTO
Study finds poor land buyout regulation days after land reform bill delay
A #ScottishGovernment commissioned report has found the demand to buy rural land for green investments could deepen divides between landowners and communities, just days after it delayed a new #landReform bill.
There's a lot of money allocated to improving active travel infrastructure in Scotland right now. Some of that money goes on employing people to deliver it. Some goes on public consultation where people overwhelmingly say they want it. Lots gets delivered successfully, but the only thing you'll ever see about it on TV is stories about where it goes wrong, or where a few loud voices are against a project and there's local conflict. #MediaFail
@CloudyMrs I use the bus a lot and the number of young people on the buses now is really striking. Coincidentally, after the Scottish Govt rolled out the free bus pass for young uns. Oddly, there’s been no coverage in the press of its success
Scottish Government Begins its Rewilding Journey - Trees for Life
The Scottish Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor has today (4th July 2023) endorsed a definition of #rewilding that can be used by the #ScottishGovernment and wider public sector.
I’m grateful for the Scottish Green Party’s place in the Scottish Government meaning that an end to LGBT+ conversion practices is in sight
(I didn’t say LGBTQIA+ because I don’t know for sure where the less-talked-about sexualities and gender identities will fit, nor whether this will have any effect on forced surgery for intersex children)
I know this has been talked about in the Scottish Government at some point, but there is sadly no plan at the moment to include ABA (applied behaviour analysis) or PBS (positive behaviour support) in an initial conversion practice ban
Regrettably, these practices are being used increasingly in the UK and Scottish context, yet conversion practices that vainly attempt to make Autistic people neurotypical are no less abhorrent than conversion practices that attempt to make people like LGBT+ people cishet 😖
A handy timeline comparing the pathologisations of queer and Autistic people: