Alba's 1 seat suddenly becomes rather important (SNP+Alba = 64 seats). Maybe we'll get an independence thermometer after all

A motion has been raised in the Scottish Parliament to raise concerns about the devastating impact of reductions to Education in Glasgow schools.

DYW Scotland DYW Glasgow Glasgow City Parents Group (GCPG) MCR Pathways EIS

Good on Gordon Brown for coming out with a multi-billion pound call to tackle Britain’s growing destitution crisis. For all New Labour’s faults, Brown had a genuine moral drive to tackle poverty. Starmer should take notes. theguardian.com/society/2024/m…

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Very much looking forward to this, and to setting out the ideas Our Scottish Future has put forward to improve parliamentary accountability in Scotland. Come!

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✍️ NEW: The Union needs a new identity, which celebrates and embraces our rich diversity, declares Mark McInnes

ourscottishfuture.org/the-union-need…

'The leader of the future is going to have to be a collaborator. Is that just a jargon word? It absolutely isn’t.'

@vibrant_socks on how public service leadership needs to adapt and join together.

newlocal.org.uk/case-studies/l…

Magical.

Plans to drop city mentoring scheme ‘will be catastrophic’. In a letter to The Times, business and public-sector leaders are calling on Glasgow City Council to abandon plans to cut funding for MCR Pathways programme. Read the full article: mcrpathways.org/plans-to-drop-…

The Times and The Sunday Times Scotland

5 initial conclusions on NHS reform... plus a 6th: if change is going to happen, you've got to bring people with you.

Since 2019 I’ve mentored 3 different disadvantaged young people at 3 different Glasgow schools with MCR Pathways - so the news that the council plans to cut its funding dismayed me.

I wrote for The Herald about the human cost of cutting the scheme:

heraldscotland.com/opinion/241725…

Fix the NHS in 5 steps:

1️⃣ Everyone agrees what the problem is
2️⃣ Everyone agrees what the solution is
3️⃣ This wont be fixed with more doctors
4️⃣ Technology offers hope
5️⃣ Collaboration is key

✍️ Eddie Barnes

ourscottishfuture.org/fixing-scotlan…

NEW Institute for Fiscal Studies verdict on the budget:

“Government and opposition are joining in a conspiracy of silence in not acknowledging the scale of the choices and trade-offs that will face us after the election. They, and we, could be in for a rude awakening”

With an election ahead, OSF is going round towns in Scotland to see what matters to people.

In Dalkeith last week it was clear - community. Here’s just a little of what we picked up 👇

Column today on the need to confront one of our biggest emerging challenges: the increase in the number of people off sick.

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Was my great pleasure to meet with dear friend, World Health Organization (WHO) Ambassador for Global Health Financing, Gordon Brown during my visit to the University of Glasgow.

His leadership, advice and moral clarity on the need for sustained investment and political action for global health, WHO's work and a…

Glasgow City Council is planning to cut funding for MCR Pathways school-based Coordinators. Our incredible mentoring community supports over 2000 young people in Glasgow and is independently proven to have a transformational impact for the city’s most disadvantaged young people..

This is terrible news and utterly unwarranted. So much money sloshing around the public sector - and the brilliant MCR Pathways is what gets cut? Ridiculous decision.
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Great to have our new report, 'North Sea 2, The Future of Energy From the North Sea' covered this morning on BBC Radio Scotland.

The report author, Nick Butler, says that there is potential to develop low carbon energy and create an industry which can operate worldwide 👇

🚨 NEW: Today Our Scottish Future launches our new report, 'North Sea 2: The Future of Energy From The North Sea'.

The report backs a new North Sea grid linking offshore wind networks to guarantee the future of the Scottish energy industry.