Submission to the United Nation’s Committee on

Issues raised include: • Proposed changes to the human rights legal framework in the UK and Scotland; • The establishment of the new devolved social security system and agency; • Poverty and socio-economic equality, the labour market and cost of living; • Changes to housing policy and the impacts of rising costs; • COVID-19 impacts for education and proposed reforms to Scottish education; and • Th. [...] The Parliament was created by the Scotland Act 1998, which was amended in 2016 to provide a clause recognising the permanence of the institution.56 The Scottish Parliament has power to create primary legislation in the form of Acts of the Scottish Parliament. [...] The Scottish Parliament has elected to legislate for domestic incorporation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and while the legislation was successfully challenged for relating to reserved matters, the majority of the provisions of the Bill were found to be in the scope of devolved competence. [...] E/C.12/GBR/CO/6 The Committee calls upon the State party to: (a) para 41 Review the entitlement conditions and reverse the cuts in social security benefits introduced by the 57 Welfare Reform Act 2012 and the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016; (b) Restore the link between the rates of State benefits and the costs of living and guarantee that all social benefits provide a level of benefit sufficient. [...] 12 (1999) on the right to adequate food and the Voluntary Guidelines to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security adopted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations as well as to the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes.