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Susan Rice Dame Susan Rice is another veteran financier who combines banking and business interests with roles on public boards interest in the arts. She is chair of Scottish Water and the Scottish Fiscal Commission.  As chief executive, and then chair of Lloyds TSB Scotland, she became the first woman to head a UK clearing bank in 2000. In 2012, she was also the first woman elected as president of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry. She has long been respected by government. In 2009 she chaired the 2020 Group, set up in response to the Climate Change Bill, which aimed t...

SCOTLAND needs to take urgent action to fill a £10.66bn black hole in budgets over the next 14 years to make revolutionary changes to adult social…

FUNDING and difficulties in recruiting staff will throw up barriers to reforming Scotland's social care system, the public spending watchdog has…

Scottish election 2021: What is in Nicola Sturgeon's in-tray? By Douglas Fraser Published image copyrightPA Media A reshuffle and the Covid crisis, followed by an referendum, are top of the first minister's 'to do' list, but there will also have to be work done on the independence proposition. There's a daunting list, also, of public service reforms, economic priorities led by shifting energy markets, and the setting up of a national care service. The first minister's in-tray has to be a robust structure at the best of times. Coming out of an election, with a pandemic and an independence refe...

UNIONS have called for urgent reform of the care sector in Scotland as it emerged one in ten are on zero hours contracts. A new analysis by the Scottish Trades Union Congress has raised concern that one in five are on non-permanent contracts and called for an end to what it described as "low pay and exploitative working processes" which have had "fatal consequences" through the Covid crisis. And it is concerned that the ten care providers in Scotland with the highest Covid death totals were all run for profit. The STUC raised its concerns while warning that care workers are more than ...