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Secondly, the announcement of the £250 million investment turned out to be an extra complication. As a result, we had to renegotiate with the council, which we still managed to do by 1 March.
In that respect, we are very concerned about supervision for staff, because the job is very challenging at the best of times, even if you are not doing extra hours or overtime and no matter whether you have fair work principles or not.
Of course, as I explained in an earlier answer, councils have incurred extra costs and have diverted some of the money for the provision of 1,140 hours towards critical childcare.
Of course, that budget delivers an extra £4.9 billion to the Scottish Government budget, making it the largest settlement in the history of devolution.