The Fraser of Allander Institute Podcast

(00:37) Main reflections on the Budget (03:22) Key tax announcements  (09:15) Announcements – or not – on council tax (12:03) Social care spending increases starting to come through (13:45) Scottish child payment & child poverty measures (15:40) Local Government Funding impacts

(00:49) What does ITP Energised do? (02:45) How have your operations changed in recent years? (04:38) How important is the rise of “sustainable” or “green” finance in the progress towards net zero? (05:58) What opportunities are there for the energy transition in Scotland for supply chain development? (08:17) How are skills mismatches affecting the transition to net zero? Is this affecting your bu...

Chair  Stuart McIntyre, FAI Guests  Mairi Spowage, FAI David Eiser, FAI Time stamps (01:10) What are the key economic headlines from yesterday's budget? (04:30) Do you think heightened uncertainty may result in less spending in future budgets? (06:20) What are the key fiscal issues from the budget? (09:10) What does all of this mean for Scotland? (11:10) What pressures are expected? (14:17) What a...

Chair  Emma Congreve, FAI Guests  Chris Birt, JRF  Peter Kelly, Poverty Alliance  Time stamps (00:53) Background to Challenge Poverty Week (08:32) Summary of JRF Poverty in Scotland 2021 (11:49) Overview of FAI modelling work on child poverty (15:01) Discussion on the child poverty targets   Link to challenge poverty week:   https://www.challengepoverty.net/ Link to JRF Poverty in Scotland 2021:  ...

Timestamps: (01:32) What is get2gether? (03:49) What members have learned at get2gether and why this matters. (11:35) Sex education for people with learning disabilities. (16:42) Why people with learning disabilities often have low expectations of relationships. (22:32) The barriers to making progress. (24:13) Relationships and The Keys to Life. (28:32) What policy changes do get2gether ambassador...

(00:00) Headlines from GERS... (03:36) This year's areas of controversy (08:52) What drives the differences between Scotland and the UK? (10:08) What the figures mean for the constitutional debate (13:47) Is there an issue of structural unfairness in the UK? (16:52) The latest labour market data (20:58) Is there any evidence of labour shortages? (26:36) What about the longer-term outlook? (31:00)...

Timestamps 1:22 What is Breaking Barriers? 10:03 Breaking Barriers graduates share their stories Featuring Fraser of Allander: Rob Watts Strathclyde Business School: Heather Stenhouse Breaking Barriers graduates: Michael Higgins, Joe Kingdom and Lewis Cassidy

Check out the   Local Zero podcast here, or through your favourite podcast platform. Timestamps (00:38) Introduction to Local Zero podcast (01:43) What is meant by a green recovery? (04:09) The climate change related policies in the manifestos (08:54) Oil and Gas transition, including reskilling & training (13:55) Policy ideas that were surprising - or areas that have not been discussed (19:38) Wh...

Contributors Adam McGeoch, FAI Mairi Spowage, FAI Emma Congreve, FAI Divergent Influencers Timestamps (00:38) Economic data and analysis we’ve published this week (07:12) Learning Disabilities in the parties' manifestos (11:32) A discussion with Divergent Influencers (22:01) Child poverty in the manifestos (25:56) Upcoming analysis

Contributors Mairi Spowage,  FAI Emma Congreve, FAI David Eiser, FAI Alf Young, The Times Timestamps (00:48) Manifesto Analysis (06:33) A discussion with Alf Young (20:46) Economic Data and Analysis we’ve published this week

Timestamps (00:30) Key Issues from the campaign this week (06:33) A discussion with Mure Dickie (19:42) A look forward to the next week  

Timestamps 00:32 Disability and carer benefits for children and pensioners 02:55 The economy and growth 08:53 Jenni Davidson, Holyrood Magazine 19:33 Employability support 24:57 Looking to the week ahead

Chair Emma Congreve Guests Sophie Haldane Mphatso Kumwenda Mairi Spowage Timestamps (0:58) What have been the main policy tools used in response to the pandemic? (3:10) One key theme arising from the crisis has been the differential impact of the pandemic on different sectors and income levels, what are your thoughts on how policy has responded to this? (5:55) What are ‘scarring effects’ and how m...

Contributors: Mairi Spowage, Interim Director, FAI Emma Congreve, Head of Poverty & Equalities Analysis FAI Peter MacMahon, Political Editor ITV Border Timestamps: (00:44) Doubling the Scottish Child Payment (Emma) (06:25) Carer and disability social security powers (Emma) (08:28) Guest segment with Peter MacMahon (16:56) Universal Basic Income (Mairi) (21:28) Update on the economy this week (Mair...

Chair Mairi Spowage, Interim Director, FAI Guests Emma Congreve, Head of Poverty & Equalities Analysis FAI David Eiser: Head of Fiscal Analysis FAI Stuart McIntyre: Head of Research, FAI Timestamps (02:32) Reflections on the big themes discussed at the election webinar (13:32) Adult social care reform (16:49) Income tax powers (25:15) Labour market outlook (30:31) New social security powers

Episode Notes Chair Emma Congreve, Fraser of Allander Institute Guests Mairi Spowage, Fraser of Allander Institute Adam McGeoch, Fraser of Allander Institute Gavin Hood, Deloitte Timestamps (00:30) – Brief overview of commentary, Mairi (7:40) – The effects of the pandemic on the hospitality sector, Adam (10:00) – Homeworking in Scotland, Adam (12:40) - Implications for Spending, Gavin

FAI Emma Congreve Rob Watts Shared Lives Plus Lesley Stevenson Abby Farrell Louise Kennedy Timestamps (01:18) Discussion of FAI report into Scotland's social care system for adults with learning disabilities. (10:54) Discussion of the Shared Lives model of care and support, and a look at what the evidence tells us. (20:18) Abby and Louise share their experiences of Shared Lives.

Chair Emma Congreve, Fraser of Allander Institute  Guest Mairi Spowage, Fraser of Allander Institute Timestamps (00:47) Discussion of the Scottish Business Monitor  (08:06) Discussion of the Social Care Support for Adults Report 

Chair: Emma Congreve (FAI) Guests: Scott Richardson-Read (Scottish Transitions Forum, ARC Scotland) Kieran, Laura, Claire, Rameez and Ryan (Divergent Influencers, Scottish Transitions Forum) Timestamps: (00:50) What is ARC Scotland and what are "transitions to adulthood"? (04:04) Why is transition planning so important? (05:36) What does good transition planning look like? (10:52) Kieran, Laura, C...

(01:02) January https://fraserofallander.org/scottish-economy/a-referendum-in-2020/ (04:04) February https://fraserofallander.org/scottish-economy/budget/budget-2020-21-preliminary-analysis/ (05:46) March https://fraserofallander.org/scottish-economy/this-isnt-a-v-shaped-recession/ (10:48) April https://fraserofallander.org/scottish-economy/coronavirus-quantifying-the-impact-on-the-scottish-econom...

Chair: Mairi Spowage (FAI) Guest: Dr Hannah White (Institute for Government) Timestamps: (02:10) How well are devolved budgetary processes understood at Westminster? (05:24) What COVID-19 has taught us about the interaction between Westminster and the devolved parliaments. (14:37) The impact of Brexit on inter-governmental relations.    

This podcast was recorded on the 15th December and makes reference to the Fraser of Allander Economic Commentary and annual Budget Report published that morning. https://fraserofallander.org/fai-publications/economic-commentary-december-2020/ https://fraserofallander.org/scottish-economy/budget/scotlands-budget-report-2020/ More information on the budget work of the Scottish Human Rights Commissio...

Guests: Chair: Emma Congreve, FAI Guest: Isla Kapasi, University of Leeds Timestamps: (02:25) Motivations for self employment  (06:37) Are there particular groups that are affected (11:53) Implications for policy (24:12) Post Covid considerations for low income self employed Links to further information on the project: https://pureapps2.hw.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/9934375/In_work_Poverty_Enterp...

Guests:  Emma Congreve, FAI Mairi Spowage, FAI David Eiser, FAI Timestamps: (0:26) Headlines from the Spending Review (04:22) What choices will need to be made by the Scottish Government (08:55) Future outlook for public finances and the economy (13:35) No announcement on Universal Credit and implications (14:41) Scottish GDP statistics and challenges over the next few months (19:49) Look ahead to...

Guests Emma Congreve, FAI Mairi Spowage, FAI James Black, FAI Timestamps (0:20) What is the Scottish Business Monitor? (1:48) What does the business monitor tell us about overall business confidence? (3:28) What does the monitor tell us about the experience of different parts of the Scottish economy? (6:50) How are businesses changing the way we are working? (11:10) What is the view of business on...