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Committee reports
Date published:
13 November 2020
COVID-19: impact on businesses, workers and the economy and pre-budget scrutiny - Advisory Group on Economic Recovery report and the Young Person's Guarantee
There was particular emphasis on increasing the Flexible Workforce Development Fund and expanding the role of colleges to provide short courses targeted at furloughed staff and those looking to retrain.iEligible employers can use the FWDF to address priority skills gaps in their organisation by accessing up to £15,000 in funding to create tailored training programmes with their local college.
Last updated:
29 August 2022
20220824Flexible Workforce Development Fund Year 6
Minister for Higher Education, Further Education, Youth Employment and Training Jamie Hepburn MSP T: 0300 244 4000 E: [email protected] Sue Webber, MSP Convener, Education, Children and Young People Committee The Scottish Parliament By e-mail: [email protected] ___ 24 August 2022 Dear Convener FLEXIBLE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT FUND – YEAR SIX I am writing to advise Committee of changes to the Flexible Workforce Development Fund for Year Six which will commence delivery at the start of the college academic year for 2022/23.
Committee reports
Date published:
29 November 2022
Inquiry into Town Centres and Retail in Scotland - Upskilling for Diversifying Retail
It pointed back to the DigitalBoost gateway service, DigitalBoost Grants (currently unavailable) and Digital Development Loans.
Skills Development Scotland also highlighted the Flexible Workforce Development Fund that enables SMEs to apply for funding to access college training and work with University of Strathclyde to develop an e-commerce scale-up course and with City of Glasgow College, Edinburgh College and Borders College to develop and test an online e-commerce course.
Committees
Published:
10 February 2022
National Transition Training Fund Year 1 Report Publication
As noted in the report, we are working now to incorporate the learnings from NTTF, alongside findings from evaluations being conducted this year of our Individual Training Accounts and Flexible Workforce Development Fund programmes to inform the design and development of an optimised adult upskilling and reskilling offer.
Official Report
Meeting date:
29 February 2024
Meeting of the Parliament 29 February 2024
In the face of those unprecedented financial challenges, it was not possible to preserve the flexible workforce development fund offering.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
13 March 2025
Exploring Employability Funding Allocation in Scotland - Executive Summary
Tackling these systemic delays requires the Scottish Government to ensure timely funding allocations and Local Authorities to develop more flexible commissioning processes that mitigate disruption to service users.
News
Published:
7 October 2024
Holyrood Committee calls for urgent action to improve access to and delivery of healthcare services in remote and rural areas
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The evidence gathered by the Committee suggests that the current NRAC funding formula fails to meet the specific needs of remote and rural areas.
Committee reports
Date published:
30 October 2025
Report on pre-budget scrutiny 2026-27: responding to long-term fiscal pressures - Skills and growing the tax base
It called on the Scottish Government to “create a policy and funding environment that gives universities the scope to flexibly respond to Scotland’s skills needs, which could in turn make a significant contribution to increasing labour market participation”.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
16 April 2019
The expansion of early learning and childcare - Introduction
Part one also examines parental use of ELC, the costs to providers of delivering funded ELC, and the composition of the current ELC workforce.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
16 April 2019
The expansion of early learning and childcare - Scottish Government ELC expansion activity timeline (2014-2018)
October: The Scottish Government announces that funding for ELC will increase to £840 million a year by 2021-22.
