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Those programmes highlight potential challenges that young children face and act as an interface with the school to assist with children’s health as well as their education.
The whole agenda of responding to employees’ desires to feel more valued in the workplace and to be well remunerated, which is understandable from an employee’s perspective, also has significant benefits for our wider economy, which is why we want it to be a core part of our labour market strategy.
S6W-41203 Martin Whitfield: To ask the Scottish Government what central support mechanisms it has in place to assist local authorities in the effective deployment of youth work programmes, and how any such mechanisms are monitored.
Interventions that are part of the support that is available include the small business bonus scheme, which is a long-standing part of the Government’s programme that assists many organisations to prosper.
It failed to live up to its own fuel poverty strategy by refusing to expand the child winter heating assistance to disabled adults and those on all rates of assistance.