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In his response to the petition, the Minister for Higher and Further Education states: “While I understand the disappointment on the need to take the £26 million saving, we have maintained the college sector’s core teaching funding allocation”. His submission further states: “the Scottish Government is committed to developing a new funding model for post-school education”.
The Tories also want to eat further into unions’ political funds. Many people mistakenly believe that we are talking about funding the Labour Party, but we are not.
Covid 19 (Funding for Ventilation in Schools) To ask the Scottish Government what discussions the finance secretary has had with the education secretary regarding the allocation of additional funding to improve ventilation in schools to help reduce the spread of Covid-19.
Housing Developments (Social Infrastructure) To ask the Scottish Government how many housing developments in Scotland are currently unable to progress as a result of funding for schools and social infrastructure not being in place.
Some £30 million of that investment will support the continuation of the rural and islands housing funds, which have been described in a Scottish Land Commission report as “game changers” for community-led housing development.
Those include the pressures on the workforce, given that the peak in deaths occurred when the workforce was under the most immense stress that it experienced throughout the pandemic.