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How do the employability services link up with the skills system to ensure that those people—some of whom are the inactive people that Chris Brodie mentioned—can retrain to get the right skills and are helped to find a suitable role?
The ability of charities to deliver that will be very much dependent on their structure and whether they can absorb such activities into their existing activity.
The immediate advice that they could get on matters is provided by Citizens Advice Scotland and Advice Direct Scotland, which we support financially to undertake that activity.
In addition, pathways into high-skilled, well-paid jobs lead to better social outcomes for individuals and would help achieve Scottish Government ambitions around economic inactivity and child poverty, as well as increasing tax income.
We will typically set out a three-year investment programme with a view to spending the allocation that we get, and we have to make various assumptions about what we will get in future years.