Future work

Scotland’s colleges contribute to sustainable economic growth by helping to develop a highly educated and skilled workforce. The Scottish Government provides Scotland’s colleges with over £550 million a year to deliver agreed levels of further...

The National Fraud Initiative (NFI) in Scotland is a counter-fraud exercise led by Audit Scotland, and overseen by the Cabinet Office for the UK as a whole. It is part of a range of measures in place across the Scottish public sector aimed at...

The Forth Replacement Crossing is the biggest publicly funded infrastructure project in Scotland in recent years at an overall cost of £1.35 billion. The main element of the project is a new bridge, the Queensferry Crossing, connecting Fife with...

The Scottish Government has committed to delivering a future-proofed infrastructure that will provide world-class digital connectivity across the whole of Scotland by 2021, enabling anyone in Scotland to connect and communicate instantly using...

Improving mental health and wellbeing is a major public health challenge for Scotland. The social and economic costs of mental ill health are high. One in eight children aged ten to 15 report symptoms of mental ill health, with most adult mental...

The integration of health and social care services is a major programme of reform, affecting most health and care services and over £8 billion of public money. The reforms are far reaching, and aim to ensure services are well integrated and that...