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Skills Summary • There needs to be greater investment in the tertiary sector and funding ring fenced to deliver a competent workforce (knowledge, experience, skills and behaviours).
In relation to engagement, I would like greater traction in two main areas from the dialogue between the Government and local government. They are fair funding and flexibility in councils’ budgets.
Whether this investment is harnessed through the development of a bespoke fund, or by another means of the Scottish Government’s choosing, I would be very happy for the provisions of my Bill to be used as a model for such partnership funding to operate in practice.
For example, although it does not quite state this, the Withers review implies that the flexibleworkforcedevelopmentfund should end and be brought under the main central funding arrangements.
It benefits the young people themselves and it contributes to ensuring there are sufficient numbers of young people with transferable skills to form a flexibleworkforce for the future needs of the economy.