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Mary Fee: To ask the Scottish Government what targets it has set to measure the impact of the Scottish Attainment Fund in West Scotland. (S5O-00045) 16.
We have been able to access emergency funding from the unit to increase the hours in which our workforce is engaging young people in learning and development programmes.
The Scottish Government also has significant flexibility over how it spends annual increments to its funding as a result of the application of the Barnett formula.
We are investing in modern apprenticeships by increasing the number of MA starts this year as a step towards having 30,000 starts by 2020. We will also establish a new flexibleworkforcedevelopmentfund for the training that is needed ...
In addition, committees should have the flexibility to incorporate budget scrutiny into their work prior to the publication of firm and detailed spending proposals.
Furthermore, it can be difficult to persuade the public of the long term benefits of preventative approaches when they require reduced funding for other services, for instance shutting down a care home to free up funding for community based care projects 11Audit Scotland. (2016).