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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.
In addition, during the pandemic, we have worked to upskill and reskill some 10,000 employees through the flexibleworkforcedevelopmentfund. We have developed 125 digital courses on which indiv...
Councils had completed most of the infrastructure projects required and significantly expanded their workforce. Take-up of funded ELC by three and four-year-olds remains high, and most parents are happy with the flexibility that is available.
We will also further develop the other wraparound elements of the Fairer Funding commitment during 2023-24 including prompt notification of funding, outcome-based flexiblefunding, and proportion...
As well as incorporating commitments around the real living wage, all public sector grants, funding and sponsorship have to be issued according to Fair Work First criteria and guidelines, and all public sector bodies and partners have to follow Fair Work practices whether they administer funding or act as employers.
Spending on Perinatal Mental Health services
The roll out of funding to Health Boards has been in progress from the start of the Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Programme Board in 2019 with initial developmentfunding to two Health Boards in the North of Scotland.