{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Hard choices ahead? Budget Challenges Facing the Next Scottish Government","description":"In this episode, Nicola McEwen and Graeme Roy look ahead to the challenges facing the next Scottish Government as it confronts a tight fiscal landscape.    Nicola speaks with Matt Donoghue from the State Government of Victoria about Australia\u2019s Early Intervention and Investment Framework (EIIF) - an interesting approach to pooled budgeting and preventative spending that\u2019s gaining international attention. They explore how the model works, how departments are incentivised to collaborate, and what it takes to shift resources toward long\u2011term prevention.    Nicola then returns with Graeme and Fiona Duncan, Independent Strategic Adviser to The Promise Scotland, to consider what lessons Scotland might draw from this approach. Together they discuss whether models like pooled budgeting, whole\u2011family wellbeing funding, and cross\u2011government decision\u2011making can help tackle system\u2011wide challenges. ","author_name":"UofG Spotlight","author_url":"https:\/\/www.gla.ac.uk\/colleges\/socialsciences\/podcast\/","html":"