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Currently Scottish apprenticeships are largely funded by SDS, administratively. In his evidence, the Minister explained that the Bill would not only consolidate three funding bodies into two, simplifying funding arrangements, but would also put apprenticeships on a statutory f...
That includes additional funding to support international recruitment; providing additional postgraduate specialty training places in medicine; funding training opportunities through the NHS Scotland Academy, including training for new perioperative staff; and actively considering future staffing needs as part of on-going workforce planning activity.
This work develops and supports an inclusive forum to continue meaningful engagement with people with lived experience of destitution and no recourse to public funds.
This feedback resulted in actions being identified to promote and reduce the stigma related to mental health, identifying and preventing mental health issues within the workforce, and the enhancement of the capability of line manager and peer support across the policing workforce.
In addition, we have provided more than £600,000 to establish a rapid rehousing welcome centre for people at risk of rough sleeping, and more than £21,000 of flexible emergency funding to front-line homelessness organisations.
Since 2015, we have committed more than £500,000 of funding to the association for work towards the development of a national care framework and to support the organisation’s specialist support devices and its initiatives to raise awareness of the condition.
One of the other challenges that we face is that where we have had in-year funding or funding for specific investments, that funding has not been inflation proofed.