Dave Watson
Tuesday, 30 October 2012

Shared services conference

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I was speaking at the Holyrood conference on shared services in Edinburgh today. Sir John Arbuthnott gave an overview of progress in the...
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Monday, 29 October 2012

Mental health, presenteeism and the workplace

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Mental health issues are getting a lot of attention in this morning’s media, rare for a subject that is often taboo. Ed Miliband leads th...
Friday, 26 October 2012

Violent assaults on the increase

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I am at Stirling University today, speaking at our annual health and safety conference. Part of health and safety at work week. I am launc...
Thursday, 25 October 2012

Getting it together on climate change

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Scotland is rightly proud of it's ground breaking climate change legislation. In 2009 the largest civil society coalition Scotland has e...
Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Police reform budget

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I was in Parliament today giving evidence to the Justice Committee on the police reform budget. My written evidence tells the sorry s...
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Friday, 19 October 2012

Why I will be marching tomorrow

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Tomorrow I’ll be joining thousands of people marching through Glasgow for the STUC demo. I am particularly pleased to be marching from Geor...
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Wednesday, 17 October 2012

Local Democracy Week

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This is European Local Democracy Week . Every year between 15 and 21 October, the ELDW brings together local authorities from all the 47 me...
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Dave Watson
I am a semi-retired trade union policy wonk, now working on a range of projects.I am the Director of the Jimmy Reid Foundation, Secretary of the Keir Hardie Society and Secretary of the Socialist Health Association Scotland. Past Chair of the Scottish Labour Party.Graduate in Law from University of Strathclyde. Fellow of the RSA.I have worked in government and in the public sector. I am the author of chapters in several books and a range of publications.
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