SFC should also work with Education Scotland to ensure its quality assurance regime for colleges supports these measures; • expand the Flexible Workforce Development Fund, allowing colleges to engage and support SMEs and micro- and family-businesses in enhancing productivity; • Our final recommendation for Scottish Ministers draws on the benefits that our other proposals may generate. Our theme is one of identifying opportunities to reduce unnecessary bureaucratic constraints and central controls that characterise the current system and which, in our judgement, hold colleges back from making the fullest possible contribution to inclusive growth.