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Youth employment funding
Local authorities share £6.5 million investment.
Scotland’s 32 local authorities will split £6.5 million from the Scottish Government to take forward a variety of programmes that will support young people towards a job.
The funding has been put in place to support the implementation of the recommendations from the Commission for Developing Scotland’s Young Workforce which outlined a new blueprint for work-based training last year.
The funding will go towards initiatives to develop vocational and employment pathways for young people, strengthen links between schools and employers and help vulnerable groups become work ready.
Local authorities have now been informed of how much they will receive for 2014/15.
Cabinet Secretary for Fair Work, Skills and Training Roseanna Cunningham said:
“The latest trends on youth employment have been hugely encouraging but there is no room for complacency. The Scottish Government is committed to supporting more young women and men into jobs and published a new youth employment strategy in December.
“At the heart of our strategy is the report by the Commission for Developing Scotland’s Young Workforce. We will continue to work closely with our partners in local government and Scotland’s business community on its implementation as part of a seven year plan to create a new world-class system of work-based training that will work for both the economy and the job prospects of our young people.
“I am very pleased to be able to confirm funding for all of our local authorities that will give them additional resource to tailor activity to local need as we progress work to ensure all of Scotland’s young people have the best possible chance of success.”
Notes To Editors
The funding is split as follows:
Aberdeen City £201,117
Aberdeenshire £400,295
Angus £155,422
Argyll and Bute £137,234
Clackmannanshire £60,522
Dumfries and Galloway £233,193
Dundee City £178,318
East Ayrshire £166,601
East Dunbartonshire £100,495
East Lothian £125,349
East Renfrewshire £90,902
Edinburgh £462,975
Eilean Siar £53,286
Falkirk £169,885
Fife £437,913
Glasgow City £692,850
Highland £362,484
Inverclyde £86,878
Midlothian £97,030
Moray £126,425
North Ayrshire £175,150
North Lanarkshire £394,823
Orkney Islands £40,931
Perth and Kinross £205,878
Renfrewshire £179,536
Scottish Borders £165,262
Shetland Islands £51,583
South Ayrshire £130,630
South Lanarkshire £370,882
Stirling £135,507
West Dunbartonshire £102,438
West Lothian £207,936
Total £6,500,000
