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Collaboration across scrutiny bodies also includes internal organisational issues, such as joint training for staff and sharing expertise when required. • Bòrd na Gàidhlig is collaborating with community organisations to develop community- based Gaelic language plans which will also provide a framework for increased joint- working from public bodies. • The Scottish Funding Council is leading on collaboration projects across colleges and universities.
Committee reports
Date published:
1 September 2017
That is another factor that goes into the workforce planning model, to ensure that we have adequate levels of supply cover in the system, with flexibility in the size of the workforce to meet the need for short-term cover for staff.
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the open letter sent to MSPs from over 120 colleges, businesses and trade unions, on 5 February, urgently asking for the reinstatement of the FlexibleWorkforceDevelopmentFund...
The school aged childcare sector needs to be funded by government payments for childcare at a realistic level, a level of funding that supports the workforce and the infrastructure."
The Scottish Government welcomes the Setting the Bar report and will consider and discuss the findings with its partners to inform and develop future social work workforce policy.
How businesses are prioritised for worker allocation, given the relatively small quota number, is likely to be contentious.
How will workforce mobility be accounted for? A proportion of the workforce are highly mobile.
This will allow much needed informed discussion on flexible wrap-around care, and how high costs deter workforce participation, hurting economic development and threatening community resilience.
It recognises the need to explore new and existing funding arrangements to address the breadth of investment needed and this will be investigated as part of the work to develop the Infrastructure Investment Plan.
In the past four or five years, we have seen the introduction of the flexibleworkforcedevelopmentfund, which allows employers who pay the apprenticeship levy to reuse some of that resource to upskill employees.