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More specifically, the Changing Children's Services Fund, which aims to allow major re-configuration of services for children, has the provision of mental health services for children as one of its key priorities.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
6 December 2001
The amendment in the name of Lord James Douglas-Hamilton falls.The fifth question is, that motion S2M-5549, in the name of Fiona Hyslop, on early years education, development and care, as amended, be agreed to.
That will provide—I hope in a glossy document—the framework within which we will develop projects such as crossrail through the strategic transport projects review.
The assurance by the minister about the money is very welcome. I hope that the funding will be continuing. We have a bad habit of starting off good projects and, after two or three years, not funding them.
That the Parliament, for the purposes of any Act of the Scottish Parliament resulting from the Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Bill, agrees to the following expenditure payable out of the Scottish Consolidated Fund, namely– (a) any expenditure of the Scottish Ministers in consequence of the Act; and (b) any increase attributable to the Act in expenditure payable out of the Fund under any other enactment.
At the end of the day, it comes down to money to a certain extent. I was disappointed that the funding is to be virtually halved—to £2.4 million, I think, from £4 million.