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These include initiatives to help strengthen the skills of the Scottish workforce, such as the £10 million pilot FlexibleWorkforceDevelopmentFund I launched last week, and the Individual Train...
In one, the final business case for the projects has been approved and the funding is in place. The other is for those where the business case is still in development and therefore that funding will be allocated in future budgets.
Prompt action is needed to support the development of a sustainable workforce to provide affordable, flexible and accessible childcare across ages, settings and regions.
Committee reports
Date published:
1 September 2017
The Committee recommends that the GTCS, and its replacement, should be as flexible as possible in its processes, ensuring wherever possible that sufficiently qualified teachers can begin in post straight away as opposed to needing to receive provisional registration and/or undertake probation.
Until the career framework and skills matrix commission is complete, it is impossible to know where the funding gaps are to provide this. In the short term and to pursue workforce growth, NES has provided a proposal to develop a training programme, based on the physiotherapy funded scheme, and using an existing programme at Queen Margaret University's pre-registration Audiology Masters.
Committee reports
Date published:
16 February 2021
Childcare provision • All members offer childcare funds to students who are eligible, which is funded by the Student Awards Agency Scotland (SAAS). • Members such as Dundee and St Andrews own and operate their own nursery.