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Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1 Agenda item 3 is witness expenses in relation to the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Bill.
Councils play a fundamental role in the lives of children and young people in Scotland, and our role as education authorities is only one aspect, as it is bound up with our wider responsibilities for children and family services and underpinned by getting it right for every child.
We have also repeatedly called on Westminster for a capital spending boost in the interests of jobs and recovery in Scotland. We have provided Westminster with a list of shovel-ready projects that we could take forward if we were given additional funding and we will continue to press for that.
Fair Start Scotland (FSS) is Scotland’s national devolved employability support service, which helps those further from the labour market to progress towards and into fair and sustainable fair work.
Jackie Baillie omitted to mention in her declaration of “We was right” that the Scottish National Party proposed a £70 cut in family energy bills, which is, by definition, rather better than an energy price freeze.I welcome the monopoly investigation into the energy market.
What did it pick up? Are there lessons for Scotland in it? Scotland is obviously devolved so, as far as we know, Scotland is not part of the evaluation.As late as August 2011, the Higher Education Funding Council for England earmarked another £1.3 million for such subjects.