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We have streamlined what was formerly the excellence fund to become the new national priorities action fund to give local authorities more flexibility over how they use those resources.
Implementation of the recommendations in "Changing Lives: Report of the 21st Century Social Work Review", the supporting front-line staff framework and the national strategy for the development of the social service workforce will also support the aim of making the social services sector a more attractive sector in w...
To those ends, the Scottish Executive funds the national network of volunteer centres, Volunteer Development Scotland, project Scotland and a number of specialised projects.
A range of measures have since been implemented, including the development of speech and language therapy assistants, the sponsorship of final-year students, personal development packages, and flexible working arrangements.
We have significantly increased recruitment to teacher training courses and we are on track to deliver our commitment of a teacher workforce of 53,000 in 2007. I am pleased to hear of that progress.
SERAD has two targets: to support 280 on-going and new core research and development projects and to award 40 per cent of the flexiblefund contracts by open competition.