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Some very good work is being done by the chief executive of WHALE Arts in Edinburgh on utopian funding—what funding looks like when flexibility is maximised.
Within this context, CAMHS have made a number of performance improvements with additional investment in staffing from Scottish Government funding allowing service development, combined with improvement in pathways.
We are working to support Scotland’s just transition through policies such as our £500 million Just Transition Fund for the North East and Moray; our £75 million Energy Transition Fund that will support our energy sector and the North East; our upcoming Energy Strategy and Just Transition Plan; our Green Jobs Workforce Academy; our National Transition Training Fund; and our support for OPITO’s work on the skills transition.
We cannot support simplicity in a single funding model at the expense of supporting excellent higher education provision in a way that reflects its cost. • We do see opportunities to evolve how university upskilling and reskilling courses are funded and how graduate apprenticeships and wider forms of work-based learning are funded to offer more flexibility and responsiveness.
That is the reason why there is the National Association of Link Workers, and it is why we are working with bodies that are concerned with education and workforcedevelopment, so that we have a workforce strategy.
Upskilling and continuous professional development of our workforce is a priority which, amongst other business benefits, helps in retaining workers and assisting younger employees, in particular, with their career progression and aspirations.
The Committee wanted to hear from both funded and funding organisations and would like to understand what can be done now to make the funding process more efficient, so available funding can be used more effectively.
The problem is that, if there is inadequate policy funding for the commitments that are already in the system, to which we add the new funding on top, we have to take money from core funding to prop up commitments that have not been funded and or when demand or cost increases.
Deal funding sits in the HM Treasury’s (HMT) Reserve, and gets transferred directly to the Scottish Government as a ring-fenced Barnett top-up annually in line with pre-agreed funding profiles for each of the respective Deals in delivery.
The Local Employability Partnership needs multi-annual funding opposed to year-on-year funding in order to implement the second Child Poverty Delivery Plan.