The Jimmy Reid Foundation is hosting a meeting on ‘Scrutiny of Private Sector Delivery of Public Services – Reforming FoI law to deliver equal transparency in Scotland’. Katy Clark MSP has issued a consultation seeking… Read More »Meeting on FoI Reform – 6 March at 6pm
To mark today, Thursday 10 December 2020, as the annual International Human Rights’ Day, the Jimmy Reid Foundation is pleased to publish the paper, ‘Update on Human Rights Protection in Scotland – recommendations to review… Read More »Human Rights Protection in Scotland – recommendations to review and revitalise
The Jimmy Reid Foundation is pleased to mark International Women’s Day on the 8th March each and every year. We are particularly please that our vice-convener, Lynn Henderson, has put forward a concrete proposal – called… Read More »Support International Women’s Day, All Year, Every Year!
Bottom-up based democracy is the way forward for public services reform says new Jimmy Reid Foundation paper by Dave Watson of UNISON Scotland In the run up to the local authority elections in May 2017,… Read More »Bottom-up based democracy is the way forward for public services reform
Bottom-up based democracy is the way forward for public services reform says new Jimmy Reid Foundation paper by Dave Watson of UNISON Scotland In the run up to the local authority elections in May 2017,… Read More »Bottom-up based democracy is the way forward for public services reform
On Wednesday 11th January 2017, the Jimmy Reid Foundation gave oral evidence and delivered a written submission to the Scottish Affairs Committee of the UK Parliament to inform its current inquiry ‘Sustainable employment in Scotland’. The Inquiry is examining how… Read More »Reid Foundation Gives Evidence to UK Scottish Affairs Committee
On Wednesday 11th January 2017, the Jimmy Reid Foundation gave oral evidence and delivered a written submission to the Scottish Affairs Committee of the UK Parliament to inform its current inquiry ‘Sustainable employment in Scotland’. The Inquiry is examining how… Read More »Reid Foundation Gives Evidence to UK Scottish Affairs Committee
Independent statistician and economist, Jim Cuthbert, warns the Prudential Code provides Scottish local government with no protection in the coming storm. After the Scottish Government’s tight local government funding settlement in its December 2016 budget,… Read More »The Prudential Code: flimsy fig leaf in the coming storm
Carole Ewart argues human rights are the framework for a fair society A child witness project in Canada evaluated its service after ten years. Respondents, by this time adults, were asked which part of the… Read More »Economic and social rights are human rights
The Scottish Review has featured Jimmy Reid in its online, oral archive of 6th May 2015. ‘Storm the heavens’ was recorded in front of an audience of young people with Jimmy Reid on politics in Scotland. There is… Read More »SR Oral Archive