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Details on local authority funding allocations and the number of additional staff recruited are available on the Scottish Government website at the following link: Teachers - Schools - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

We continue to support our local authority partners with £16 million per year to ensure all secondary schools have access to school counselling services. It is for local authorities to determine how they deliver the counselling service in their area.

In December 2020, local authorities confirmed that counselling services were in place across Scotland for all school pupils aged 10 and above.

School counselling is just one a range of services in place to support children and young people’s mental health.

The recent teacher pay deal is the largest in twenty years and was made against a challenging financial backdrop. It is in that context that we have had to review funding commitments across the programme.

We continue to value the importance of professional development for teachers as demonstrated by the range of professional learning and leadership programmes provided by Education Scotland and detailed on their website Education Scotland | Professional Learning and Leadership . In addition, we are investing £800,000 this year in the Into Headship programme to support future school leaders.

We are open to considering reinstating funding for masters-level learning for teachers should future budget provisions allow.

The Scottish Government does not hold this information. I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-20534 on 6 September 2023. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at : https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers

Public Health Scotland (PHS) does not collect data on the waiting times patient experience for dyslexia screening.

Codebase, the operator of Scotland's Techscaler network, has acquired CodeClan’s training materials and other assets.

The Scottish Government has agreed to provide financial support to Codebase for the explicit purpose of allowing students who have paid for courses to complete their studies. Guidance has been issued to students and operational arrangements are being finalised.

All local authorities will consider and assess how much of their 2023-24 resource planning assumptions (RPAs) they target towards property acquisitions.

The Scottish Government engaged with a wide range of stakeholders in the development of the Learning together: national action plan on parental involvement, engagement, family learning and learning at home 2018–2021. In late 2021 a steering group was formed by the Scottish Government to inform next steps, with representation from CoSLA, Education Scotland, Association of Directors of Education in Scotland, Scottish Qualifications Authority, General Teaching Council of Scotland, Connect, National Family Learning Network, National Parent Forum of Scotland, and Scottish Parental Involvement Officers Network.

The Scottish Government is currently considering next steps and will update the Scottish Parliament later this year.

Codeclan was a private sector enterprise and its financial stability was the sole responsibility of its management and board of directors.

The Scottish Government and Scottish Enterprise worked intensively with CodeClan to explore every possible option to secure a sustainable future, including commissioning the support of private sector consultants.

Ministers are legally bound by subsidy control rules which set clear thresholds on the level of public funding that can be injected into private businesses. In this case the sum required to place the business on a stable footing significantly exceeded these thresholds, with no guarantee of future viability.