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I understand that the Minister for Higher Education and Further Education, Youth Employment and Training visited the Greenock campus of West College Scotland with Mr McMillan in September and heard at first hand about the benefits that a new-build campus could bring.
The corporate parenting law states that care leavers should be supported up to the age of 26. If someone was living with their parents up to the age of 26, they would not have to pay council tax.
We are collating and analysing the responses and considering the precise timings for implementation of the new community right to buy for which the 2015 act provides.
The witnesses might have touched on this already, but, for the record, what is the latestnews on the status of pillar 1 and pillar 2 payments for 2015, 2016 and 2017?
Women with a ‘high support’ workplace were more likely to feel confident asking for new reasonable adjustments, and more likely to have flexible, compassionate, and proactive support.
RSPB Scotland welcomed the species at risk initiative but said “we have a long way to go” and emphasised the importance of species recovery in conjunction with 26 ecosystem-wide restoration work. NFUS supported a review of species licensing and noted a lack of tools for managing “conflict species”, arguing this can negatively impact biodiversity.
More recently the Scottish Government's independent short-life working group considered the demand for new and future housing construction skills in its report, New Housing and Future Construction Skills - Adapting and Modernising for Growth.iiShort life working group, New housing and future construction skills: report (May 2019) https://www.gov.scot/publications/new-housing-future-construction-skills-adapting-modernising-growth/pages/16/ [accessed May 2019]This report also identified particular skills pressures in Highlands and Islands and the South East.
We also wanted to look at the impact of the continued higher costs of living in 2024, which the data that we have cannot provide, given that the latest data that we have available is from 2021-22.