John Swinney has welcomed the announcement that the Scottish Government is to deliver extensive new investment in Scotland's schools through the Scottish Futures Trust. Education Secretary Fiona Hyslop has outlined plans to invest £1.25 billion in Scotland's schools, in order to further reduce the number of pupils in unsuitable school accommodation.
The Scottish Government will provide around two thirds of the funding for new secondary schools and half of the funding for new primary schools. This will make new school construction projects far more affordable for Local Authorities and will deliver around 55 additional new schools.
So it appears the SFT is moving in the right direction. Well done John Swinney, I know it wasn't an easy task. It would have been so much easier to continue with the costly PFI/PPP which labour so loudly acclaim.
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Looking at the timeline, the intorduction was 12 months ahead of what labour managed in their first term.
It's already delivering more and a wider range of projects, better than all that though, it's set the foundations for a national fund when coupled with borrowing powers.
I wish this information was in the national press Wardog. Perhaps John Swinney will make a statement in the very near future and halt all the negative comments from the unionist parties.
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