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 ambassadors want to see?

(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) Is there any differential impact on Scotland?
(34:10) Look ahead to what is coming up over the next couple of weeks
 

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) Where are we on net zero compared to where we need to be?
(24:38) The importance of COP26 in Glasgow

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 much of a policy concern are they?
(9:34) What are the trade-offs between timely, targeted, and temporary fiscal policy?
(14: 12) How much of a concern is government debt?
(18:16) Has adapting to the pandemic changed the way we think about economic policy?

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 (Mairi)

Links

Understanding Social Security in Scotland: Working age disability and carer benefits

https://fraserofallander.org/understanding-social-security-in-scotland-working-age-disability-and-carer-benefits/

Election 2021 Issue brief: Universal Basic Income

https://fraserofallander.org/election-2021-issue-brief-universal-basic-income/

Household incomes and the 2021 election
https://fraserofallander.org/election-2021-issue-brief-universal-basic-income/

The economic backdrop to the Scottish election

https://fraserofallander.org/the-economic-backdrop-to-the-scottish-election/