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The Scottish Government is committed to increasing visibility of ELC services and increasing uptake of the funded offer. Uptake of universal funded ELC is high, with data collected from local authorities by the Improvement Service showing 113,944 children aged 3-5 accessing funded ELC in April 2022.
Agenda Item 10 - Date of Next Meeting th 14 June 2022 at 6pm 8 ACTIONS Action Point 1 - Covid Ventilation Fund/ Financial Support SMCM requested that those who have a financial interest re Covid fund write to him to raise these issues and then he will write to Scottish Government.
My reading is that the oversight and budgetary responsibility for apprenticeship funding is likely to shift from Skills Development Scotland to the Scottish Funding Council.
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.