The Scottish Government is currently considering next steps and will update the Scottish Parliament later this year.

Codeclan was a private sector enterprise and its financial stability was the sole responsibility of its management and board of directors.

The Scottish Government and Scottish Enterprise worked intensively with CodeClan to explore every possible option to secure a sustainable future, including commissioning the support of private sector consultants.

Ministers are legally bound by subsidy control rules which set clear thresholds on the level of public funding that can be injected into private businesses. In this case the sum required to place the business on a stable footing significantly exceeded these thresholds, with no guarantee of future viability.

We have met with the Scottish Council of Deans of Education to discuss their concerns.

The recent teacher pay deal is the largest in twenty years and was made against a challenging financial backdrop. It is in that context that we have had to review funding commitments across the programme.

We continue to value the importance of professional development for teachers as demonstrated by the range of professional learning and leadership programmes provided by Education Scotland and detailed on their website Education Scotland | Professional Learning and Leadership . In addition, we are investing £800,000 this year in the Into Headship programme to support future school leaders.

We are open to considering reinstating funding for masters-level learning for teachers should future budget provisions allow.

The Scottish Government has no plans at present to conduct research into the need for incontinence bins in men's toilets in Scotland.

The Scottish Government does not hold this information, because it is statutory responsibility of local authorities to manage and maintain their school estate.

This government has a strong record on the school estate, working in collaboration with local authority partners. The 2023 school estate statistics show that 90.7% of schools were in a good or satisfactory condition in 2023, up from 90.4% in 2022 and 61.1% in 2007. Since 2007-08, 1,098 school builds or substantial refurbishment projects have been completed.

The Scottish Government’s £2 billion Learning Estate Investment Programme is being delivered in partnership with local authorities and will build on this progress.

The Scottish Government engaged with a wide range of stakeholders in the development of the Learning together: national action plan on parental involvement, engagement, family learning and learning at home 2018–2021. In late 2021 a steering group was formed by the Scottish Government to inform next steps, with representation from CoSLA, Education Scotland, Association of Directors of Education in Scotland, Scottish Qualifications Authority, General Teaching Council of Scotland, Connect, National Family Learning Network, National Parent Forum of Scotland, and Scottish Parental Involvement Officers Network.

Our new strategy takes a fresh approach to tackling the inequalities that lead to suicide. This is reflected in our key priorities for 2023-24 which include a commitment to support new peer support groups across Scotland; drawing on the extensive feedback and evidence we considered when developing our strategy.

We are providing funding of £389,150 to the Scottish Recovery Network over the next 3 years to continue its vital work to build peer support capacity across Scotland. The innovative Creating Hope With Peer Support project is developing and co-designing peer support training with a range of community based suicide prevention groups and services. Our aim is to enable high quality peer support to be provided across the country for those in crisis, contemplating suicide or who have been affected by suicide.

The training will be piloted in winter 2023-2024 and rolled out to other groups and services across the country when finalised, helping to increase the number and range of people who can access peer support.

I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-20716 on 5 September 2023 . All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at: https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers

Local authorities currently provide six monthly reports on school counselling services which include information around number of children accessing the service, improved outcomes, counsellor numbers and the types of issues young people are presenting with.

A summary of the reports submitted in 2022 will be published on the Scottish Government website in the coming weeks at: Access to counsellors in secondary schools and children and young people’s community mental health services – summary reports - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-20573 on 5 September 2023. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers .