Category: government policy

• 9th Aug 2025

  Letter to Political parties ahead of Scottish elections

  On 19th July, we held a public to discuss joint asks to political parties, which are now writing their manifestos for the 2026 Scottish elections. Below is a the text of the letter we have sent to Scottish Labour, Scottish Greens, Scottish Liberal Democrats and Scottish Conservatives and Unionists. We are writing to share with…
• 30th Mar 2025

  Video | Education – learning from Covid

  This is the video of the public meeting that we held on 29 March 2025. You might like to check out our YouTube channel which has a host of really useful videos from past meetings and talks.
• 16th Apr 2024

  Protection from airborne infections in health AND SOCIAL CARE SETTINGS

  

  This Wednesday 17 April, the Scottish petition – the first of the three UK nations’ petitions on the topic of protection from airborne infections in health & social care settings, will be considered. It will be interesting to see how it goes. You can watch it live or afterwards on Scottish Parliament TV . It’s…
• 6th Mar 2024

  13th March: support Long Covid groups in Edinburgh!

  On 13th March, Long Covid Scotland is organising a Call to action photo call outside the Scottish Parliament from 13:00 to 13:30 (please arrive at 12.45). If you live in or near Edinburgh, please consider going along to lend your support! Please wear an FFP2 or FFP3 mask to help protect each other. There will…
• 21st Mar 2023

  March Newsletter

  Thank you to everybody who joined our public meeting on 11th March. We had two great guest speakers: Professor Stephen Reicher (member of Independent Sage, based at St Andrews University) and Lara Wong, founder of Clinically Vulnerable Families. If you missed the event, then you can watch and listen to both speakers’ presentations and their…
• 13th Mar 2023

  Report from public meeting

  Covid: prevention is possible This report from the Zero Covid Scotland online public meeting includes four videos. The first two videos cover the introductions by the speakers. The subsequent discussion was not recorded. The final two videos cover the speakers responses to the questions and issues raised. The speakers were: Lara Wong, founder of Clinically…
• 13th Dec 2022

  NEW INEQUALITY, NEW EXCLUSION: IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY

  

  Disability equality and inclusion expert and activist, and Zero Covid Scotland member Sally Witcher explains the lack of sense in the Scottish approach to Covid and its’ related harms whilst also touching on what an inclusive safe alternative should look like.
• 15th Nov 2022

  SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT TO MAKE CUTS ON PUBLIC HEALTH PROTECTIONS IN TIME FOR WINTER

  

  Spending cuts to the Health and Social Care budget will reduce expenditure on vaccines, test and protect and PPE for health workers – our last remaining, albeit futile defences against Covid-19
• 31st Oct 2022

  What are we up against?

  In a week when Independent Sage has shared a devastating analysis of the ongoing damage that Covid is inflicting on people and as the latest Covid wave gathers momentum, Mike Downham gives a personal view of how we have come to a situation where government and many individuals behave as if Covid is yesterday’s problem.…
• 23rd Aug 2022

  Covid – forgotten (by governments) but not gone

  This article by Pete Cannell was first published on the rs21 website. The latest wave of Covid appears to have peaked and started to decline across the four UK nations.  That said the rate of infection driven by the BA.4/BA.5 variants has been astonishingly high.  Three weeks ago, data from the Office of National Statistics’ (ONS) snapshot of…