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It is also vital that the Bill makes clear that the safe staffing duties introduced by the Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Act apply to all services within the scope of the NCS. The responsibilities and accountability for workforce planning needs to be clearly articulated within the requirements for the National Board and local care boards.
Work continues to develop plans for a new public body responsible for qualifications, a national education agency and an independent inspectorate, ensuring that we establish clearer accountability and well understood roles and responsibilities.
Decisions about diversification of the curriculum are made at a school and local authority level and they will take into account a range of factors in deciding what to offer including the following: • Aspirations of learners within their schools; • Availability of practitioners with the skill, knowledge and understanding to offer new vocational qualificatio...
It notes there are many methods of being able to track and monitor progress, with the Circularity Gap Report and the Zero Waste Scotland Material Flow Accounts using differing methodologies, although presently there isn’t an agreed position on the robustness and comparability of the differing methods and further work is required to be done.
The Scottish Government’s position is that “councils operate independently of central government and are accountable to their electorates for the services they provide”.
2023-24 Quarter 1 Items of Expenditure over £25,000 for the Scottish Parliament Payee Amount Paid Date Paid Account Code Description. Ethical Standards Commission 82000 01/04/2023 Funding to Officeholders Funding to Officeholders Scottish Human Rights Commissioner 100000 01/04/2023 Scottish Information Commissioner 178000 01/04/2023 Funding to Officeholder...
This is again an area where profiling would help to track progress/account for year-to- year fluctuations. • The recent tackling child poverty progress report stated that £108 million would be made available for ‘employability support’ in 2023-24 – however, this may be the total funding for the overall No One Left Behind programme, so wider than just parent...
NOTE 2: SF were provided with a draft of this submission, which we have amended to take account of most of their comments. NOTE 3: We encourage MSPs to consider joining us on a site visit to the ‘spectacular oak woods and waterfall walk’ described below.
This page gives information on part time fee grants, SDS individual training accounts, funding for social work study at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and modern apprenticeship funding.