Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning
- Teacher and School Workforce Issues
- School Infrastructure (Building Programme and Technology)
- School Closures
- Performance Improvement and Reform of School Education (Including Governance Options)
- Educational Attainment and International education and Benchmarking
- Relations with Local Government
- The Scottish Funding Council (Liaison, Functions and Membership)
- Universities
- Further Education Colleges
- Higher Education Student Support
- Further Education Student Support
- Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework
- Economic Recovery Plan
- National Economic Forum
Minister for Learning, Science and Scotland’s Languages
- Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) (including CfE programme, curriculum areas and excellence work, literacy and numeracy, senior phase, support for all, pedagogy health and Wellbeing in the curriculum)
- Commercialisation and internationalisation of Scottish School and Vocational Education/Qualifications)
- Class sizes and placing requests
- National Qualifications and Assessment
- Scotland’s Languages (in particular Gaelic and Scots)
- Modern Languages and Scottish Studies (including introduction of new courses)
- Set up of Education Scotland
- Sponsorship of Scottish Qualifications Authority
- Behaviour, Bullying
- Adult Literacy and Numeracy and English for Speakers of Other Languages
- Young People who need more choices and more changes: co-ordinated delivery with CfE
- Inclusion
- Mental Wellbeing
- Free School Meals
- Additional Support for Learning and Grant Aided Special Schools
- Parental Engagement in Education
- Policy and Development of Science Strategy
- Science Education in Schools
- Public Engagement in Science
Minister for Children and Young People
- Social Services Workforce
- Childcare and Pre-School
- Early Years/Early Intervention (Including Parenting and Play)
- Protection of Vulnerable Groups and Child Protection
- Young People who Offend
- Looked after Children (including adopting and fostering)
- Safety of Children in Care (Kerelaw and Historic Abuse)
- Children’s Rights
- Getting it Right for Every Child
- Children’s Hearings and SCRA and CHS Sponsorship
- Community Learning and Development and Literacy
- Youth work
- Asylum and Immigration (impact on Children and Young People)
- Care Inspectorate Activities (Including Inspection and Scrutiny)
- Nutrition
- Economic Recovery Plan
- Workforce (Children and Young People)
- Regeneration (Children and Young People)
Minister for Youth Employment
- Skills Development Scotland (Delivery of national Training Programmes and Careers Information, Advice and Guidance Services)
- Individual Learning Accounts (Flexible Training Opportunities and the Training for Work Programme)
- Education Maintenance Allowance Programme
- Engagement with third sector organisations on the delivery of Youth Employment Programmes
- Engagement with Local Authorities, Community Planning Partnerships and More Choices More Changes partnerships on transition planning for young people in line with 16+ Learning Choices policy framework
- Engagement with employers and employer bodies to encourage practical support for young people seeking to move into work
- National rollout of Activity Agreements
- Engagement with Department for Work and Pensions and Jobcentre Plus Scotland on issues relating to 16-24 year olds, including delivery in scotland on Uk Work Programme and UK Youth Contract
- Union Learning
- Liaison with STUC on Lifelong Learning
- Workforce Development (Including leadership and manager development, Investors in People and employee engagement)
- Skills development support for specific industrial and service sectors, particularly but not exclusively the economic growth sectors
- Support for those employees facing redundancy
- Alignment of adult (18+) employability and skills services
- UK Commission for Employment and Skills and the Sector Skills Council
- Support to help disabled people into work (all age)
- Women’s Employment – all age