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That point has certainly been made positively in the debate.My predecessors as Minister for Communities agreed to fund LGBT Youth Scotland to develop materials that are aimed at helping people to understand better the global, national and local histories of LGBT communities.
For example, there might be flows into the changing children's services fund, which my department administers, from departments such as the Development Department and the Health Department, and there will be shifts from bits of other budgets into that fund.
Both mechanisms should allow authorities more flexibility. The latter mechanism should allow there to be more flexibility in determining councils' investment levels while ensuring that they continue to seek best value when choosing between funding options.
Jean MacLellan said that we are planning to fund regional development worker posts to assist with training, which I know is another area in which there is a disparity; COSLA thinks that we should have 15 such posts, and we are costing five.
The extension is a £9.18 million project, which is proceeding, as John Scott said, with a significant commitment of funding from the European regional developmentfund, from the college itself and from bank borrowing.
That standard has been applied for the financial year 2000-01.As in my previous report, the auditors highlight areas of college activity that require careful management, such as the management of funding from European sources. The conclusion is that a number of colleges need to develop further their management accoun...
I do not think that the problems are fundamentally the fault of businesses for not coming forward with schemes. There are funded agencies in place that exist to develop the economy.