Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

Part of the debate – in a Public Bill Committee at 12:00 pm on 3 March 2009.

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Julian Gravatt: I have to agree that the SFA will do a different job from the LSC and that it needs to be appropriately staffed. Our concern is that there seem to be a lot of staff, especially when compared to the equivalent agencies in Scotland and for higher education. We accept that those have a narrower range of duties. Colleges will have to make redundancies this year because of changes in demand for adult learning and the changes in Government funding. There is a difficult climate, but this seems to us to be a missed opportunity in the changes.