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I record that I am happy to help Jeremy Hunt with development of that national workforce plan—in fact, we will offer to share with him the work that we have undertaken in developing and delivering our national workforce plan.
The Scottish Government has previously provided £3.7 million of funding from the just transition fund to support industry-led development of an energy skills passport—as the member is right to mention.
In our draft budget for 2017-18, we announced the establishment of a new £10 million workforcedevelopmentfund to support the skills development of people who are already in work.
I would characterise this not in terms of the workforce in central and local government, but in terms of corporate functions and the front-line workforce.
Approaches to referrals across the UK
As a comparison with developments in Scotland, the Committee was interested in the development of Long COVID services across the rest of UK.
I cannot understand what is going on in the head of our cabinet secretary. Surely an appropriate level of funding ought to be provided to support the development of a solution to present to the people of Scotland.
Committee reports
Date published:
1 September 2017
The Committee recommends that the GTCS, and its replacement, should be as flexible as possible in its processes, ensuring wherever possible that sufficiently qualified teachers can begin in post straight away as opposed to needing to receive provisional registration and/or undertake probation.