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As you have heard through your evidence sessions, there are many flexibilities which the Scottish Funding Council has been discussing for many years, including multi-year funding settlements and year end flexibilities, along with rationalisation of funding pots (which was also discussed in the Withers review).
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to reinstate or replace the FlexibleWorkforceDevelopmentFund, in light of Audit Scotland’s findings in its recent report, Scotland’s Colleges 2025, that its withdrawal has ...
An additional 4.2% (£59.1m) of revenue funding is requested for 2025/26. This requirement would allow policing to maintain our overall workforce numbers, including up to 16,600 police officers.
The Committee calls on the Scottish Government to provide a detailed update on progress towards implementing the key recommendations from the PMHN Scotland report related to workforce training, along with timescales and sources of funding for completion of any actions that remain outstanding.
We would like assurance that funding to replace any significant reduction in FTs will not be at the expense of other areas of economic development spend.
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Date answered:
25 October 2021