Chamber and committees

The final breakdowns across portfolios and over time will be subject to local decisions between delivery partners.

Agreements will be reached in line with guidance from the Early Years Taskforce.

The investment in the Early Years and Early Intervention Change Fund and the other Change Funds represents the Scottish Government and NHS Scotland’s intention to move existing resource to where it makes the most difference, by supporting a prevention and early intervention agenda.

I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-04325 on 16 December 2011. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

COSLA, the third sector and NHS Scotland are all represented on the Early Years Task Force, which will oversee the use of the Early Years and Early Intervention Change Fund. The first meeting of the task force was held on 8 November 2011, as part of the ongoing discussion on how best to lead and implement a preventative spend approach in Scotland.

The Scottish Government’s annual teacher workforce planning exercise takes account of all available evidence relating to teacher supply and demand.

All matters relating to teacher supply and demand are taken into account in the Scottish Government’s annual teacher workforce planning exercise.

The number of probationer teachers joining the 2012-13 teacher induction scheme will depend on the number of students graduating from one year and four year initial teacher education courses in summer 2012 which were entered by students at an earlier date and not from decisions still to be made.

The Scottish Negotiating Committee for Teachers (SNCT) is committed to monitoring the implementation of all aspects of the agreement, including short-term supply, and the Scottish Government will play its full part in that through our representation on the Committee.