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To build on this work Alistair advised there was a need for a dedicated allocation of Knowledge Exchange and Skills Funding, which would enable the college sector to delivery activity which was previously facilitated through the FlexibleWorkforceDevelopmentFund.
Additionally, the establishment of an infused revenue stream for heritage-based assets can provide the opportunity to fund more local projects and reduce the stress of current grant-based funding.
Councils could, in a like-for-like comparison, still use that additional £120.6 million of resource funding this year to fund the capital projects that they had funded previously, because they were already using resource funding to fund capital investments.
This point was echoed by Andy Witty (Colleges Scotland) who expressed concern about the removal of the flexibleworkforcedevelopmentfund, a point also noted by Tiffany Ritchie (SFC).
The primary care network has the necessary infrastructure to support safe, quality care, including suitable and sustainable staffing levels and skill mixes in all settings and appropriate access to all electronic patient records.#
The primary care workforce uses up-to-date digital technology that enables people to receive flexible, efficient and effective care, wherever it is provided.
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...
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Date published:
19 November 2025
Businesses have made it clear that flexiblefunding should be made available to support their ambitions, and our recently announced Grangemouth just transition fund will be a key tool in bringing forward future investment at the site.
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.
It also includes pledges to implement the next phase of the green jobs workforce academy.
Within the economy portfolio, the enterprise agencies face real terms cuts in resource funding under the RSR.