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It is vitally important that the Chief Constable has the flexibility to develop her workforce in a way that responds to the challenges she faces by ensuring the right workforce mix.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 February 2022
The Scottish Government’s upskilling and retraining programmes, including Individual Training Accounts, the FlexibleWorkforceDevelopmentFund and the Green Jobs Workforce Academy, are designed ...
Committee reports
Date published:
9 September 2024
The Minister also states that the Scottish Government has funded In Control Scotland to conduct research into current procurement and commissioning practices13Scottish Government. (2024, July 16).
Should the UKSPF use the match funding approach to allocating funding, we recommend that there is greater local flexibility as to the percentage of public funding required to secure funding from ...
NHS Highland received £11 million of ‘brokerage’ funding from the Scottish Government; additional funding provided by the government in order to ensure a break-even position at the year- end, 30 March 2020.
For example, although it does not quite state this, the Withers review implies that the flexibleworkforcedevelopmentfund should end and be brought under the main central funding arrangements.
We know that spending on training by employers across the UK has declined over the past 15 years, so not enough money is being spent on training. We also know that allowing funding to be used only for certain schemes, even the flexibleworkforcedevelopmentfund, meant that what small businesses could use it for was quite limited.