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It is for local authorities to decide how best to use this additional funding. However, when Euan Robson wrote to local authorities announcing the funding in April, he suggested that authorities may wish to consider further support to kinship carers.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-7396 by Mr Frank McAveety on 4 May 2004, what further funds have been provided for the development of grassroots rugby, detailing the source of the funds.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
2 December 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how the provision of free fruit in schools is funded. The Free Fruit Scheme is funded by the Scottish Executive through the National Priorities Action Fund.
To ask the Scottish Executive why self-funding patients of care homes have to pay higher amounts for the same quality of care than patients funded by local authorities.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 April 2004
Local authorities plan for thedevelopment of their land to take account of the needs of local communities, includingyoung people. There are Executive funded programmes related to this such as theBetter Neighbourhood Services Fund which has supported teenage recreation and multi-playsports areas in deprived communities and the Vacant and Derelict Land Fund alsofunds projects including community open spaces.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 November 2003
We haveinitiated a third phase of our review of higher education in order to considerthe possible impacts on Scottish higher education of any new funding systemintroduced in England, and the funding of higher education will then beconsidered in the usual way in next year’s spending review.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 February 2003
The Scottish Further Education Funding Council has been responsible for allocating funds to further education colleges since 1 July 1999, when it took over that responsibility from the Scottish Office Education and Industry Department.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 January 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make funding directly available to community bodies in its promotion of community empowerment as well as to partnerships to which community bodies have to apply for a share of such funding.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to continue funding for the Scottish Teacher Release Scheme should funding for that scheme expire and what its position is on the need to ensure that teachers who participate in the scheme can continue to be released from their duties in order to ensure that children a...