Past and future meetings
Future meetings
SPIF is currently working on a series of events on public sector reform. Details of the next events in the series will appear here in due course.
Suggestions for seminar topics are always welcome - if you would like to make a suggestion, please email Lucy.
ScotHub website
SPIF has teamed up with the Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh, the Scottish Public Management Network and the ESRC to develop ScotHub, an online community which brings together organisations and individuals interested in public policy and management in Scotland.
Partnership with Scottish Affairs
The Forum has agreed a new partnership with the journal Scottish Affairs. In 2011, the journal will be launching a new section of the journal dedicated to 'Debates on Policy'. This section will include articles which draw on recent debates on public policy issues from SPIF meetings, continuing the debates and extending them to a wider audience. These articles will be available for download from this site.
Past meetings
Copies of the papers and minutes from previous SPIF meetings are available for download.
- Holding public bodies to account
- Public finances in Scotland
- Creative reductions
- Poverty and employment
- The future for public expenditure
- Health inequalities
- Scotland's constitutional future
- Promoting dilogue
- Central-local relations
- Public policy and the economic downturn
- Prisons and sentencing
- Best value, performance and efficiency
- Fiscal federalism
- Local tax
- Older people's issues
- Land use and integrated planning
- Innovation
- Contestability and public services
- Policy divergence
- Transport
- Social policy, employment and the active labour market
- Media policy
- Social inequality and deprivation
- Economic development
- Public sector reform
- Demographic change
- Law and order
- Early years