Found: In Rwanda, for example, women’s money saving schemes and cooperatives have provided access to

Found: cocoa beans; paying a higher price so farmers can earn a living income; working to strengthen cooperatives

Found: Additionally, innovative approaches such as community-owned renewable energy projects and energy cooperatives

Found: commercial wasteland in medium-sized towns the creation of town centre manager positions support for cooperatives

Found: You asked specifically for updates on Regional Care Cooperatives.

Found: Support community-led housing initiatives, such as cooperatives, community land trusts, and self-build

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department plans to review current practices for commissioning of foster care services.

Answered by David Johnston - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Education)

The Independent Review of Children’s Social Care and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) recommended that the government introduces a network of Regional Care Cooperatives (RCCs) to plan, commission and deliver children’s social care placements in fostering, children’s homes and secure homes on a regional basis. The department has committed to trialling this approach with two RCC pathfinders to build an evidence base before future rollout.

The department’s long-term vision is that RCCs will help improve commissioning and sufficiency, and better enable local authorities to meet the needs of the children in their care, whilst reforming foster parent recruitment and retention.

In addition, the department is investing £36 million to deliver a fostering and retention programme so foster care is available for more children who need it. This will boost approvals of foster carers, as well as taking steps to retain existing foster carers. Darlington local authority, as part of the North East pathfinder, were one of the first local authorities to take part in this programme.

Found: In addition to data communities, intermediaries include data cooperatives, data exchanges, data trusts

Found: The Regional Care Cooperatives pathfinder has also launched, and the two delivery areas will be announced

Found: The Regional Care Cooperatives pathfinder has also launched, and the two delivery areas will be announced

Found: quarterly survey conducted among credit establishments such as banks, financing companies, and financial cooperatives

Found: Housing Association Ltd • Catalyst Housing • Cathcart & District Housing Association • CDS - Cooperatives

Found: In addition to data communities, intermediaries include data cooperatives, data exchanges, data trusts

Found: • In Preston, interest in CWB has led to funding opportunities and cooperatives being established

Question

To ask the Scottish Government how much funding in total has been distributed from the Fuel Insecurity Fund within each local authority area in each year since it was launched.

Answered by Martin, Gillian - Minister for Energy and the Environment

The Scottish Government does not hold the full level of information requested.

Each FIF partner was distinct in terms of their delivery and approach, which was often demand-driven through referral partner networks. We agreed an approach to monitoring and evaluation of support provided by delivery partners which sought to avoid excessive demands for data gathering and reporting, yet provides a level of robust quantitative and qualitative data, which ensured the FIF could be distributed to those most in need.

The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) support included funding for Registered Social Landlords and cooperatives, covering distribution across the 32 local authorities as set out in the following table: