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Following completion of the pilot programme in early 2021, the Scottish Government has developed a standard methodology for LHEES and is currently funding 14 local authorities to use this to build on their pilots and begin to create local authority area wide LHEES.
Following completion of the pilot programme in early 2021, the Scottish Government has developed a standard methodology for LHEES and is currently funding 14 local authorities to use this to build on their pilots and begin to create local authority area wide LHEES.
Such companies need to have seed funding of £2 million to £5 million, series A funding of £5 million to £15 million and series B funding of £15 million to £60 million.
Fiscal Framework
The VHA states:
"Through the development of a robust Fiscal Framework, which will include meaningful early budget engagement, the Local Government Settlement will be simplified and consolidated, clear routes to explore local revenue raising and sources of funding will be established, and wherever po...
At the start of the year, the First Minister announced the £29 million fairer Scotland fund. Nearly £10 million of that will be directed at developing the social economy.
If we identify potential homelessness in domestic abuse cases over six months rather than two months, that will allow us to deal with such situations more quickly and manage them in the best way possible. We talked about the fund to leave, which was brought in. We worked closely with Women’s Aid on giving women the ability to leave by providing them with funds.
That was not on the table before. Indeed, that funding is almost three times as generous as the funding package in the Secretary of State for Scotland’s formal offer to me last autumn.
Contractual arrangements will have been put in place in the provision of grant funding. I will explore those issues and reply in writing to Rhoda Grant about what steps can be taken to address what I recognise to be a legitimate issue that she has raised with me today.