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The Taskforce has developed a package of support to assist Scotland’s Councils deal with the immediate recovery as well as consider longer term issues such as repairing infrastructure.
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Date answered:
22 December 2021
The Commission has not reported a breakdown of the proportion of the ADP clients in receipt of greater, the same, or lesser amount of financial assistance under ADP compared with what they receive from the Department for Work and Pensions.
Judy Edwards mentioned leadership programmes. A whole variety of leadership programmes, including the young ambassadors programme, give young people the chance to have their voices at the heart of that agenda,to drive it and to look at how that can support wellbeing.
There is clearly positive work developing training resources underway in different education authorities such as CPD programmes for ASN assistants (Highland Council) and Autism strategies (Dumfries and Galloway).
The second issue is with administrative data from HM Revenue and Customs about pay as you earn and employee numbers. That has been affected because there has been a quite significant shift from self-employment to employee jobs, which makes it hard to disaggregate the underlying true picture of employee employment.
The Scottish Government and the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities have announced a joint programme of engagement to build consensus on long-term council tax reform.