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Early years practitioners
Private and third sector providers are key to the delivery of funded childcare including the expansion to 1,140 hours for all children over the age of three by August 2020.
Published in 2020, the Climate Emergency Skills Action Plan (CESAP) provides a framework for green skills planning and investment across regions and priority sectors. Skills Development Scotland and the Scottish Funding Council are progressing Pathfinder projects to identify the skills requirements necessary to supp...
We expect the direct operational cost base will be funded by income from unredeemed deposits (46%) and sale of materials (20%), with the balance from producer fees (33%).
Arguably, there continue to be significant workload burdens on the staff. There are also issues with funding, and approaches have been made to the corporate body to increase funding.
The Scottish Social Services Council, the workforce regulator, is already working with COSLA and NHS Education Scotland to produce a specific Training Development Pack to support those moving to or across care services at this crucial time.
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The Committee heard that more recent deals have the additional challenge of navigating through higher levels of bureaucracy, whereas mature deals had more flexibility in the way their business cases were developed.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
30 January 2024
Since 2021-22, we have directly allocated £17 million to Local Authorities through the Nature Restoration Fund for them to deliver such projects in partnership with other organisations.