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As part of the Committee's inquiry into financial considerations when leaving an abusive relationship, some Members visited Financially Included on 25 April 2025.
The current upper age limit for accessing this support is 26; this should be a lifelong entitlement, as parents support their children beyond this age. • Local authority budget cuts and social work staffing shortages are impacting on support received. • Contact with social workers had reduced in recent years.
Training has been provided to employees on the purchasing process and additional guidance to ApprovalMax users was supplied in the new workflows of the system on 26 April.
You said that, in your most recent delivery plan, you do not project any reduction in staffing until 2025-26, so how will that 10 per cent reduction be achieved by 2027?
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Date answered:
9 February 2021
More on the ABR to Budget comparison
The Scottish Budget document includes an additional table which shows the Autumn Budget Revision (ABR) figures for 2025-26 without transfers that have not been baselined into 2026-27.
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Subordinate Legislation Considered by the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee on 26 March 2024
A report on the subordinate legislation considered by the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee on 26 March 2024.