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Delivery Structures and Policy Development in Post-Devolution Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2002

Richard Parry
Affiliation:
School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh Email: richard.parry@ed.ac.uk

Abstract

The policy process in the devolved Scottish system reconciles the Scottish themes of delivering social policy from the centre, through channels of advice and professional direction, and the New Labour theme of broad social policy strategies aiming at better service delivery and employment outcomes. Beneath the surface issues there is a trend to re-structure some services. The Scottish Executive's strategy Social Justice, set out in annual reports, relates devolved and non-devolved responsibilities in a way that has implications for the structure of Executive departments and the policy-making demands made upon civil servants. The research reported here uses interviews with officials to explore the structures of policy making in the Executive within a context of expectations about ministerial and official roles inherited from the previous administrative devolution.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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