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The Scottish Policy Innovation Forum (SPIF) is a network of academics and individuals from the public, private and voluntary sectors.

Its purpose is to foster better and more meaningful dialogue between academics and policymakers, with a view to ensuring that public policy is better informed by research. Membership of the forum is open to anyone with a professional interest in the development of public policy.

The Forum organises events on topical issues in public policy. Details of forthcoming events can be found on the Forum's website. Reports and other materials from past events can be downloaded from the same site and from the downloads section on this site.

Previous events have explored innovative policy solutions in these areas:

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

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

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