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I welcome Stephen Lea-Ross, deputy director of health, workforce planning and development, and Siobhan Mackay, interim deputy director of primary care capability, both at the Scottish Government.
Skills and workforcedevelopment
Skills and workforcedevelopment were highlighted as key factors in the performance of the construction sector in Scotland.
We know that we have challenges in the mental health workforce and annual funding is amplifying the issue that we have with the retention of staff, while the directed pots of funding can restrict partnership working.
These are the Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council (“the SFC”), Skills Development Scotland (“SDS”) and the Student Awards Agency Scotland (“the SAAS”).
Committee reports
Date published:
22 November 2021
Whilst they supported the principles, they said this "would require sufficient funding to ensure they can be successfully delivered; both in respect to building the workforce base (numbers and skills) necessary to do the work, and support through the process of implementation (learning from those areas, in Scotland a...
The idea of a credit model is to have flexibility in the provision. We recognise that the withdrawal of the flexibleworkforcedevelopmentfund had a huge impact in that area.
The European social fund and European regional developmentfund programmes have provided significant funding to Scotland for more than 40 years to promote economic development and cohesion.
We remain committed to investing in green hydrogen and are working with Scottish Enterprise, Highlands and Islands Enterprise and South of Scotland Enterprise to develop further funding support for the sector, informed by and shaped to its needs, and interdependencies such as offshore wind development.