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In addition, we will ring fence new funding to support festivals across Scotland; to improve digital access to our public libraries; to restart and extend community-led arts and creativity programmes; and to develop a culture and heritage capacity fund.
Broadly, we do not differentiate in terms of access to flexible working—it is for everybody. A high proportion—25 per cent—of our workforce work flexibly.
The Programme for Government confirmed funding for the Tackling Child Poverty Fund at £50 million over the life of the next delivery plan, however, the overall funding for tackling child poverty is significantly higher.
In August, the Financial Times reported that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was considering funding the £9 billion Thames crossing using a private finance initiative-style funding arrangement.
S5W-04758 Alison Johnstone: To ask the Scottish Government whether it will introduce earmarked funding for the provision of local and specialist services to tackle domestic abuse to ensure that such support remains a budget priority.
I know that COSLA and others have been lobbying hard to have control of benefits and I can see the sense in that. However, the Scottish welfare fund is a small but good example of a national system that is delivered through local authorities, and a whole set of bureaucracies has developed around that.
In her response she described the importance of local authorities having sufficient flexibility in being able to develop outcomes and indicators that are most relevant to their area.viLocal Government, Housing and Planning Committee.
Across countries, school evaluation and inspection systems are important means of managing the tensions between local flexibility and national consistency. In recent years, many systems have moved to more decentralised models of inspections, including school self-evaluation and the development of self-evaluating netw...