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Additional initiatives such as the FlexibleWorkforceDevelopmentFund and the Digital DevelopmentFund have been created to help companies to fund the digital skills investments they need to grow.
Close the Gap said “The lack of ethnic diversity within the Scottish teaching workforce is well-established. Only 1.4% of the teaching workforce are from ethnic minority backgrounds, with ethnic minorities accounting for 1% of the primary teacher workforce, and 1.7% of the secondary sector workforce.
Cross-sector support was on the basis that funding infrastructure beyond individual sites was critical in supporting development in Scotland, and broad agreement that there was a need for infrastructure funding to go beyond the scope of section 75.
I would argue that we do not really have a choice and that we need the Scottish Government to speed up funding. We all know that our NHS and social care services face huge workforce challenges.