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Due to the pandemic, work was delayed on the collective Scottish Government commitment to undertake joint working with COSLA to develop a rules-based fiscal framework to support future funding settlements for local government.
The SNP needs to stop reducing college funding and help our further education providers respond to the recommendations of the commission for developing Scotland’s young workforce.
There might be capacity issues with how it develops that scheme. The programme for government announced an increase to discretionary housing payments and an extension of the eligibility for the tenant grant fund.
Our collective focus throughout the 1,140 hour expansion has been on improving conditions across the private, voluntary and childminding workforce with regard to funded ELC. When ELC expansion began, local authorities were already paying above the living wage to their staff.
. £8.6 million to the Innovation Fund to enable third sector social care providers to deliver flexible and creative support and promote culture change through the workforce (21 projects received a share of £1.1 million in 2016-17)