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It is clear that that support will be needed more than ever as we rebuild rural and urban economies after the pandemic.United Kingdom Government (Covid-19 Funding Commitments) United Kingdom Government (Covid-19 Funding Commitments) To ask the Scottish Government what the finance secretary’s response is to reports that extra funding commitments pledged by ...
This is a difficult time for everyone, as we know. You spoke about counsellors and extra support. How do we reach the students who are difficult to reach?
We could look at doing something that does not require extra layers of complexity. It is important that we monitor all the policy areas and continue to support young carers as well as we possibly can, not just through this benefit but through a range of policy areas.
The response was that Scotland would have had an increase of £3 billion in our spending. That would mean that an extra £750 million would have come to Scotland.
We need something in the strategy that identifies that people in those groups potentially need extra support. Elizabeth Leighton and others on the panel said that the Scottish Government needs to be more ambitious, but the Scottish Government does not have much control over income, pensions being an obvious example.
We do not want to turn this into a bureaucratic exercise that is done just for the sake of it; we just want to get to the spirit of embedding culture more so that it becomes a mainstream part of what organisations do as opposed to becoming something that is nice to do if they have extra budget. I hope that the culture strategy will bring that change.