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The Committee therefore believes that developing a more tailored approach to healthcare service delivery that is more flexible and responsive to local needs, challenges and circumstances needs to be an overarching priority of the new National Centre.
It is vitally important that the Chief Constable has the flexibility to develop her workforce in a way that responds to the challenges she faces by ensuring the right workforce mix.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 February 2022
The Scottish Government’s upskilling and retraining programmes, including Individual Training Accounts, the FlexibleWorkforceDevelopmentFund and the Green Jobs Workforce Academy, are designed ...
Committee reports
Date published:
16 November 2021
The Committee would welcome further clarity on the approach to treatment of such alternative avenues for sourcing funding for mesh removal surgery, including reference to any duties or obligations related to the management of public finances that may have informed the Scottish Government’s approach in this area.
Thirdly, colleges are pivotal to delivering the national strategy for economic transformation, and their contribution to skills delivery is unarguable. For example, through the flexibleworkforcedevelopmentfund alone, they are already...
We know that 30,000 fewer Scots are getting places in colleges and that some of the more flexiblefunding that was available through the flexibleworkforcedevelopmentfund has been withdrawn.
This is reflected in the policy intention which takes a ‘Funding Follows the Child Approach.’ The Committee heard that private providers were able to offer greater flexibility than local authority run settings in terms of hours of provision.
The Scottish Government should provide funding to the Third Sector for the development of platforms and community services that will allow for free, evidence-based self-help resources to be available to everyone in Scotland.
We also hope that our £80 million funding offer from our Emerging Energy Technologies Fund will help accelerate the Scottish Cluster’s development and contribute towards securing its future.