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Published:
28 July 2021
Young Person Guarantee Implementation Report
The Scottish Government has made an additional £70 million available in 2021/22 to underpin the delivery of the Young Person’s Guarantee and in addition to my appointment as lead Minister, we have also delivered on the relevant manifesto commitments contained within First Steps for including:
Investing £45 million through local partnerships to provide training and employer recruitment incentives;
Funding colleges to deliver around 5,000 more short, industry-focussed courses to help young people train for jobs in key industries;
Rolling-out new school coordinators across the country to support young people access education, work, or training; and,
Establishing a new graduate internship scheme and increase places on volunteering and third sector programmes...
Last updated:
25 June 2021
Outcomes based budget scrutiny
Audits often examine whether public money is being used to best effect to support the delivery of outcomes.
There is an ongoing programme of work undertaken on behalf of the Auditor General and Accounts Commission that can be drawn from to support outcomes-based scrutiny by committees.
Committees
Published:
22 June 2021
Bus services consultation launch
These initial awards, amounting up to £23.6m across Scotland, are the first step towards delivering the £500 million of long term investment in bus priority infrastructure announced in Programme for Government. The funding incorporates quick wins, including plans to make permanent some of the temporary infrastructure brought forward through the ...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
12 May 2021
Key Issues for Session 6: COVID, Climate and Constitution - Business support, some considerations over the next five years
The impacts of business support programmes have typically been measured in terms of numbers of jobs created or supported, and the associated Gross Value Added (GVA) (for examples see Scottish Enterprise’s evaluation portal).
Committee reports
Date published:
24 March 2021
Local Government and Communities Committee Session 5 Legacy Report - City Region Deals
The successor Committee may want an overview on the progress of City Region Deals early on in Session 6, and may wish to explore the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the progress of capital programmes. Provided the Committee has no major concerns with the governance of the Deals, it may wish to do some further scrutiny of the Glasgow deal, signed in ...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
23 March 2021
Health inequality and COVID-19 in Scotland - Summary
All of these harms have had a disproportionate impact on a range of groups, including:
those who were already suffering from poor physical and mental health
people from ethnic minorities
women
younger people and children
low-paid workers.
The vaccination programme has progressed very quickly since vaccinations began in December 2020.
Committee reports
Date published:
22 March 2021
Education and Skills Committee Session 5 Legacy Paper - Looking Ahead
We believe there are certain elements of our current remit (e.g. skills) which should either sit with other committees next session or be more fully incorporated into the Committee's work programme through joint working or sub-committees.
Committee reports
Date published:
19 March 2021
Legacy Report - Arts funding
The measures suggested by the Committee included incorporating peer review into application processes; creating a tiered application process to reduce the burden on applicants who are unlikely to progress to later stages of the process; and introducing funding programmes, such as bursaries and stipends, aimed at supporting artists and arts organisations at ...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
8 March 2021
Scottish Tourism and COVID-19 - Scottish Tourism Recovery Taskforce (STRT)
Having considered the Scottish Tourism Recovery Taskforce report and recommendations, the Scottish Government stated on 21 December 2020 that they:
agreed to continue working with the industry to develop plans and pilot programmes to enable the full re-opening of the sector, in accordance with clinical and scientific advice
agreed to publish their response ...
Committee reports
Date published:
2 March 2021
Key audit themes: Managing public sector ICT projects - Lower cost projects
For example, in her evidence to the Committee on the SSSC report, the then Auditor General noted that the new framework had tended to be applied to the larger bodies and IT programmes. She said—
The problems that we are aware of at the moment tend to be in smaller bodies that do not have the skills and that underestimate the investment that is required to s...
