It willbe the responsibility of each local authority, in conjunction with their communityplanning partners, to allocate the funding on the basis of their local needs andpriorities – having first fulfilled its statutory obligations and the agreed setof national outcomes, including the Scottish Government’s key strategic objectivesand the full terms of the concordat. Further details on these new arrangements canbe found in the Scottish Budget Report and related concordat with local authorities.Copies of both documents are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre(Bib. numbers 44076 and 44077 respectively).