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The Scottish Government also supports many small grassroots charities through a number of funds such as the Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund, Strengthening Communities and the Community Capacity and Resilience Fund.
When the next budget is published, the Committee would appreciate a breakdown of how much has been spent to date, what this has been spent on, and how many carbon audits and soil tests have been carried out.
In May, the National Day Nurseries Association told the Committee that underfunding is an ongoing concern for many in the sector, a number of whom are now operating at a loss.
The Scottish Government considers that legislative consent can be recommended at this time for many, but not all, of the provisions identified as requiring consent.
It feels that the directorate is spinning many, many plates and it looks to us as if the resource that it has is being spread too thinly over too many things.
Social workers have been in attendance in many courts as a matter of routine for many decades now; they talk to the police about who is in the cells, who is coming in and whether they have arrived yet.