Posted in Finance, Leadership, Management, Public Services, Scottish Executive on Dec 9th, 2007 No Comments »
The concordat agreed by the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities and the Scottish Government sets out how funding and outcome agreements will operate over the next three years.
The document is worth reading on a number of counts but it’s the section relating to efficiency savings that perhaps sets out the greatest challenge for education.
The text reads [...]
Posted in Corporate, Finance, Management, Planning, Public Services, Scottish Executive on Nov 19th, 2007 5 Comments »
We are about to enter a brave new world in relation to local governn ment funding with the introduction of Local Outcome Agreements (LOAs). An LOA changes the way in which money is released to Local Authorities by the Scottish Government and has the potential to radically shift the way in which we do our [...]
Posted in Determined to succeed, Entrepreneurs, Partnerships, Scottish Executive on Mar 6th, 2007 1 Comment »
Determined to Succeed is the Scottish Executive’s strategy for delivering enterprise in education. It aims to help Scotland’s young people develop self-confidence, self-reliance and ambition to achieve their goals - in work and in life.
I was delighted to learn that an extra £1 million of funding for enterprise education was announced today as a report [...]
Posted in Finance, Public Services, Scottish Executive on Feb 5th, 2007 No Comments »
I had two conversations today where people made a case that other authorities were providing more resources for particular aspects of education than we do for the same aspects in East Lothian.
I must admit that this is probably one of the most challenging parts of the job as any kind of justification or explanation on my [...]
Posted in Integrated Children's Services, Planning, Scottish Executive, Seabird Centre on Oct 31st, 2005 No Comments »
8.45am meeting with Sheila McKendrick, Derek Haywood and Sheila Ainslie to further develop our cluster-based ideas for the restructuring of services. I hope to finish the paper this week. I had a useful chat with Alan Ross later in the morning about the same issue and I don't think we are a million miles away [...]