First Minister events YouTube Stream
Watch videos showing the First Minister visiting schools, companies, charities, universities, hospitals and public institutions – and many more places – to find out about their work and how Programme for Government affects peoples’ lives.
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NMMS Youth Panel Exhibition
First Minister NicolaSturgeon officially opens the first youth-led photographic exhibition at the National Mining Museum - exploring youth culture within the mining communities through decades, as part of YOYP2018. -
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Norbord £95m investment
Norbord £95m investment -
Climate Challenge Fund
The initiative supporting action to combat climate change has helped in excess of 1,000 projects – and provided more than £100 million funding over the past decade. -
Cabinet meeting with children and young people
Cabinet meeting with children and young people -
Launch of Scottish Apprenticeship Week
Employers supporting jobs drive.
The push by employers to recruit more apprentices is on track to deliver 27,000 new Modern Apprenticeship starts by the end of this year, the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has revealed. -
World Book Day
Take 10 minutes to share a story on World Book Day -
A publicly-owned investment bank for Scotland
A Scottish National Investment Bank is one step closer, following the publication of the implementation plan.
Developed by Benny Higgins, CEO of Tesco Bank, the plan has recommendations covering the remit, governance, operating model and financing of the new bank. -
Universal Credit contributing to child poverty
‘Broken’ benefits system failing Scotland’s families.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has called on the new Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to make urgent changes to Universal Credit (UC) – as she backed warnings from Scotland’s Children’s Commissioner Bruce Adamson over the ‘disproportionate effect’ of UK Government welfare policies on young people. -
2,000th Syrian refugee
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon visited COSLA to celebrate the 2000th Syrian refugee to settle in Scotland -
Royal Edinburgh Building opened
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon today officially opened the Royal Edinburgh Building – the first phase of the £48 million Royal Edinburgh Hospital redevelopment.
Phase one of the redevelopment includes new accommodation for the adult acute mental health inpatient service, older people’s mental health assessment, intensive psychiatric care service and the new Robert Fergusson national brain injury unit. -
1,000th Living Wage employer
Stoats has been confirmed as Scotland’s 1,000th Living Wage-accredited employer.
The landmark means the Scottish Government has met its target of reaching 1,000 accredited employers by autumn 2017.
Visiting the company’s Edinburgh HQ during Living Wage Week, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon met staff and congratulated the company on gaining accreditation.
