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We announced a range of measures to ensure a clear focus on numeracy across Scotland’s schools. In addition to the extra £1 million funding over three years committed to the local authority numeracy hubs programme, Education Scotland are building a range of further activities and resources into the support they provide to local authorities, teachers and sc...
In addition to this, Small Business Employment Support assists companies with less than 50 employees increase recruitment by providing an extra £1,000 subsidy to support the particular challenges in meeting the cost of recruiting additional staff.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 November 2011
Costs for the minority of submissions that require further work will rise with increasing levels of intervention, which can include a dialogue with members, but we do not hold information on how many submissions require more than the minimal intervention reflected in these figures or the amounts of extra intervention that can be required.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
5 August 2011
The guidance states that a reasonable charging policy should leave service users with sufficient money to have a reasonable quality of life after the cost of their care and any extra costs arising from their disability are met.
Under the scheme, young farmers, who must also be newcomers to the industry or have set up their farms in the previous five years, can apply for an extra payment on top of their BPS payment for the first five years of their business. 23.
Under the scheme, young farmers, who must also be newcomers to the industry or have set up their farms in the previous five years, can apply for an extra payment on top of their BPS payment for the first five years of their business. 24.
After carefully considering that advice and the views of stakeholders, the education recovery group is developing guidance that involves taking extra precautions and envisages that secondary schools will be asked to take a practical approach to maintaining distancing between pupils where possible.