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Extend gender quotes for party candidates to local, Seanad and European elections.
Make funding to public bodies contingent on reaching a 40% gender balance by 2025.
The Programme for Government 2015-16 announced that from October 2015, eligible kinship care families would receive the same kinship care allowance as foster carers. Funding of £10.1 million per year for local authorities was also announced.3Scottish Government. (2020).
Recommendation: The Committee recommends that the Scottish Prison Service provides details about what programmes are currently available in prisons to rehabilitate users of drugs and how much funding is associated with these initiatives.
Committee reports
Date published:
22 December 2021
The Scottish Assessors Association notes in its written evidence to the Committee that the change will require additional funding for EROs and that an online postal vote application service which is fully integrated with existing systems would be beneficial.
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The Public Audit Committee believes it is vital that full and comprehensive data is available to determine whether the wider outcomes of the Scottish Government’s strategy are being achieved and to be assured that public funds are being spent wisely.
The role of Community Justice Scotland
The AGS’s briefing questions whether the roles an...
College leaver destinations is one of the core national measures reported on as part of colleges’ Outcome Agreements with the Scottish Funding Council (SFC). It measures the number and proportion of full-time college qualifiers moving to post-college destinations (work, study at university, unemployed or unavailable for work) 3-6 months after qualifyi...
Committee reports
Date published:
23 February 2021
This means that the Budget will be better off by £320m which as the SFC point out is a significant increase in the expected funding available in the Scottish Budget for 2021-22.
This means that someone will be subject to a financial assessment, if they are looking to the local authority to fund the services.
It is likely that there are people who are entitled to free personal and nursing care who have not approached their local authority for an assessment of need .
The environmental NGOiNon Governmental Organisation World Wildlife Fund (WWF) advises that it is necessary to evaluate the 'ecological footprints' of timber imported from overseas in order to achieve 'zero deforestation' 7WWF. (2019).
Committee reports
Date published:
3 September 2020
Certain positions of control in companies in receipt of Government grants and funds, to which Ministers usually, though not necessarily, make appointments (for example, chairman or director).