Cost to produce and analyse various education related consultations: FOI release
- Published
- 5 November 2024
- Directorate
- Lifelong Learning and Skills Directorate
- Topic
- Education, Public sector
- FOI reference
- FOI/202400434483
- Date received
- 2 October 2024
- Date responded
- 30 October 2024
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
The total cost to produce and analyse various education related consultations.
Response
We have set out the answer to your request in the tables below. The total cost for each consultation includes a range of smaller costs associated with the development and analysis of a consultation including where relevant the:
- publication of the consultation document;
- costs in relation to consultation events, including consultation with children;
- analysis of the responses received and the publication of that analysis; and
- any other costs involved.
Eight of the consultations for which information has been requested are not yet fully concluded. For these consultations, the cost provided is the cost to date, rather than the total cost, and may subsequently change. We have highlighted below where this is the case. All costs are inclusive of VAT.
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Name of Consultation |
Total Costs |
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1. |
Children's hearings redesign |
£25,279.83 |
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2. |
'Moving on' from care into adulthood consultation |
£34,273.01 |
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3. |
Purpose built student accommodation: notice to leave tenancy: student survey |
Cost neutral, as outlined in the paragraph below. |
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4. |
Purpose built student accommodation: notice to leave tenancy: provider survey |
Cost neutral, as outlined in the paragraph below. |
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5. |
Post-School Education and Skills Reform: Consultation on legislation |
£4,000.00 |
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6. |
Review of the Regional Strategic Bodies within the Glasgow and Lanarkshire college regions |
£553.82 |
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7. |
Draft guidance and general determination for Teacher Qualification in Further Education (TQFE): consultation |
£617.08 |
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8. |
Use of remote technology in school admission and exclusion appeal hearings: Consultation |
£453.81 |
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9. |
Independent review of community learning and development: Call for evidence - Learner and Potential Learner |
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10. |
Independent Review of Community Learning and Development: Call for Evidence - Practitioners |
[1] |
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11. |
Education Reform: A Consultation on the provisions of the Education Bill |
£34,831.01 |
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12. |
Delivery of relationships, sexual health and parenthood (RSHP) education in Scottish schools - draft statutory guidance |
£39,913.14 |
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13. |
Prescribing the minimum annual number of learning hours: consultation |
£12,902.86 |
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14. |
Changes to residency criteria for access to financial support in Further and Higher Education |
£1,288.25 |
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15. |
Transfer of the functions of education appeal committees to the Scottish Tribunals |
£1008.47 |
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16. |
Professor Hayward's Independent Review of Qualifications and Assessment - public consultation |
£50,514.87 |
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17. |
Skills delivery independent review: call for evidence |
£21,528.35 |
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18. |
National Discussion on Scottish Education |
£133,334.65 |
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19. |
Inspection of early learning and childcare and school age childcare services in Scotland |
£25,858.08 |
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20. |
Physical intervention in schools guidance consultation |
£2472.28 |
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21. |
School uniforms in Scotland |
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22. |
Home education guidance |
£1520.81 |
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23. |
Education - National Improvement Framework - A consultation on enhanced data collection for improvement |
£835.50 |
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24. |
Children’s Care and Justice Bill - consultation on policy proposals |
£18,358.53 |
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25. |
University of Strathclyde – Further Education Teaching Programme Consultation |
£790.95 |
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26. |
Open Space Strategies and Play Sufficiency Assessments |
Responded to separately under case 202400434485 |
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27. |
Assessment of Wellbeing (GIRFEC) |
£55,745.69[3] |
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28. |
Education reform consultation on behalf of Professor Ken Muir, University of the West of Scotland and Independent Advisor to the Scottish Government |
£55,466.03 |
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29. |
Gaelic Language Plan |
£2,215.21 |
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[1] This is the combined cost for consultations 9 and 10, which can’t be disagreggated.
[2] Includes cost of engagement by Children’s Parliament with young people on both school uniforms and school milk; the costs cannot be disaggregated.
[3] This cost is inclusive of five additional documents that were also translated into EasyRead and BSL. This cost is inclusive of the analysis undertaken which includes the Assessment of Wellbeing, but also covered five other GIRFEC refresh documents
As civil servants are not required to record the time spent on individual tasks, we cannot provide an exact figure for the internal staffing costs associated with the above consultations. Every member of staff who contributed to the development of the consultations did so as part of their wider duties. Therefore, under Section 17(1) of the FOISA, the Scottish Government does not hold information on Scottish Government staff costs related to these consultations.
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