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This includes identifying any gaps both nationally and locally in funding, workforce, skills and infrastructure, and setting clear timescales for prioritisation.
I am always keen to ensure that everything that we offer through our skills system is responsive to industry’s needs. Under the flexibleworkforcedevelopmentfund, I expect colleges to respond to individual employer demand.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 March 2023
In addition to considering the location of roles, the Scottish Government is committed to flexible hybrid working for our workforce, enabling staff to work from a range of locations, both within government offices and working from home.
The BPRG report recommends that committees, in their final reports/letters, include views on the delivery and funding of existing policy priorities, any proposed changes and how these should be funded, and the impact of spending on the delivery of outcomes.
It is a capital budget even though that resource, going through into the research funding for the Funding Council, is being spent on people and activity.
The college is a critical partner for us as the provider of the skills intervention funding for the refinery workforce. Given the leading role of Forth Valley College in the skills transition process, it will be vitally important that the college can assess capacity and ensure that it is in place to deliver on demand...
It encompasses our core values, historical and contemporary, of fairness and equality. We are, for example, funding 11 projects through the Malawi development programme.
Committee reports
Date published:
10 February 2021
CCPS state:
We believe that a fundamentally different approach is required in order to give full effect to SDS principles of involvement, choice and control, and we have in recent years turned our attention as an organisation to supporting providers and councils to develop and design more flexible, collaborative approaches focused on outcomes and based on the development of trusted relationships rather than contractual obligations.iWritten Submission - Coalition of Care and Support Providers in Scotland
Questions have also arisen about how the implementation of SDS fits into wider community level planning alongside innovation and creativity.