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Children in Inverclyde eligible for free school meals will be among those who continue to be supported over the summer through a package of £27.6 million of additional funding from the Scottish Government. Inverclyde Council will receive £294,000 funding from the SNP government to support the continued provision of free school meals during the summer […]
Read More…NEW FIGURES SHOW HALF A BILLION IN EXTRA SPENDING LAST YEAR Stuart McMillan MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde has welcomed new figures showing spending on education in Inverclyde rose by £9,216,000 last year. The figures show councils spent £547 million more on education in 2019-20 than the previous year – a real terms spending increase […]
Read More…Stuart McMillan MSP has called for a National Museum of Human Rights to be established in Greenock to educate people about Scotland’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade. Parts of Inverclyde, particularly Greenock, have links to the slave trade through the sugar and tobacco industries, with local street names including Jamaica Street, Togo Place, Tobago […]
Read More…SNP GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCE £50 MILLION PACKAGE TO IMPROVE ATTAINMENT MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Stuart McMillan, has said pupils living in Inverclyde’s most deprived communities will benefit from targeted funding from the Attainment Scotland Fund to help close the poverty-related attainment gap. Inverclyde Council will receive a £3,467,107 investment from the SNP Scottish Government to […]
Read More…ELIGIBLE FAMILIES WILL RECEIVE £250 AHEAD OF NEW SCHOOL TERM Stuart McMillan MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde has encouraged parents of children aged four to five to apply for the SNP Government’s Best Start Grant. A one-off £250 payment is currently open to eligible families, with a child who was born between 1st March 2015 […]
Read More…Stuart McMillan MSP has welcomed Royal Bank of Scotland’s (RBS) new £7m programme to help support communities and organisations across Scotland. The Royal Bank 300 Fund has been set up to mark the bank’s 300th anniversary in 2027 and will see the bank invest £1m a year, for the next seven years, into projects designed […]
Read More…SNP MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Stuart McMillan, has welcomed news that the Scottish Government will invest £948,000 in Inverclyde schools over the next four years. The investment will mean that professional counselling services will be available to all secondary school pupils who require it by September next year. The Scottish Government is investing £60 […]
Read More…On Friday 8 November, the Minister for Children and Young People, Maree Todd MSP, visited Inverclyde Childminding Network’s event at Funworld in Greenock to hear how local childminders are working with Inverclyde Council ahead of the early learning and childcare (ELC) expansion. By August 2020, the Scottish Government will offer 1140 hours of funded childcare […]
Read More…The SNP are working to tackle inequality in Inverclyde and “lift people out of poverty” with new commitments to expand childcare into primary school and scrap social care charges. As announced by Nicola Sturgeon at the SNP conference this week, the SNP will scrap all non-residential social care charges and expand childcare into the school […]
Read More…From Saturday 5 to Saturday 12 October, hundreds of shops around Scotland are turning down music and dimming the lights, as well as providing staff with information about autism to enable them to help and understand autistic customers. Stuart McMillan MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde is calling on local businesses to take part in Autism […]
Read More…Stuart McMillan MSP will be visiting local cafés and pubs next week with an important message in sight. He will be helping RNIB Scotland mark National Eye Health Week (23-29 September) by urging people to go for a free eye examination at their local optometrist. To highlight the message, RNIB Scotland has produced a series […]
Read More…Today (Wednesday 28 August) the Deputy First Minister (FM) and Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, John Swinney MSP, visited Greenock to meet the Inver Racers ahead of their trip to Silverstone in October. The Inver Racers are four pupils from Inverclyde Academy, and they gladly welcomed the Education Secretary to West College Scotland’s (WCS) […]
Read More…Stuart McMillan MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde is encouraging the public to get involved in a journey of artistic discovery and share their finds through selfies on social media – and you can find some of them in Inverclyde. As part of this CashBack for Communities campaign, artwork or installations created by young people will […]
Read More…Local MSP Stuart McMillan has heaped praise on the SNP’s announcement of a new social benefit designed to lift children across Scotland out of poverty. By the end of 2022, eligible families in Inverclyde will now receive an extra £10 a week for every child under 16 – low income families with children under the […]
Read More…Stuart McMillan MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde welcomed a report into the No Knives Better Lives (NKBL) campaign that shows the number of Scottish youths convicted of handling an offensive weapon has fallen by 85% in the past decade. Since the NKBL programme began in 2009, the amount of young people aged under 18 convicted […]
Read More…YOUNG PEOPLE SETTING UP FOR SUCCESS AFTER SCHOOL Latest figures from the Scottish Government show that school leavers in Inverclyde continue to go on to positive destinations after finishing secondary school – with 92.3% of young people in Inverclyde going into further or higher education, employment or training nine months after leaving school. This is […]
Read More…Stuart McMillan MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde met the Inver Racers team on Monday 10 June 2019 at West College Scotland’s (WCS) Greenock campus to see how they are preparing for the International Final at Silverstone in October. Over the academic year, the team of Inverclyde Academy pupils have built their own F24 racecar and […]
Read More…Stuart McMillan MSP attended an event run by Cancer Research UK in the Scottish Parliament recently to support the charity’s ‘Scale Down Cancer’ campaign to help prevent obesity-related cancers across Scotland. The MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde heard from Professor Linda Bauld, Cancer Research UK’s prevention expert, and met the fundraisers, volunteers and scientists from […]
Read More…Stuart McMillan MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde has welcomed the news that Inverclyde has received £1,342,029 (£1.34m) in CashBack for Communities funding since the Scottish Government Programme was introduced in 2008. The CashBack for Communities scheme reinvests criminal assets into community projects that support young people into positive destinations, diverting some away from potentially criminal […]
Read More…Stuart McMillan MSP has welcomed the news that two Inverclyde groups have received a share of almost £300,000 in Scottish Government funding for 2019-2021. Inverclyde Association for Mental Health and Belville Community Garden Trust have been awarded £185,316 and £149,791 from the latest round of the Climate Challenge Fund, respectively. Inverclyde Association for Mental Health, […]
Read More…Today, Stuart McMillan MSP visited Dales Marine’s Garvel Clyde Dock to meet local apprentices as part of Scottish Apprenticeship Week, which runs every year from 4-8th March. The Greenock and Inverclyde MSP met Adam James, Reece Wolfenden, Lee McConachie and Robbie Kincaid during his visit, who gave an insight into how they ended up becoming […]
Read More…Today, the Scottish Government’s 2019-20 budget plans have been formally approved by the Scottish Parliament. Greenock and Inverclyde MSP, Stuart McMillan, has supported the Finance Secretary’s proposals since he presented them to Parliament in December 2018, with some of the key budget promises including extra funding for education, the health service and infrastructure. To ensure […]
Read More…SNP SUPPORT INCREASE IN INVESTMENT IN INVERCLYDE Greenock and Inverclyde SNP MSP backed the SNP’s budget plans last night, which offer economic stability in the face of Brexit while giving a cash boost to the NHS, schools and other vital services. Despite Westminster cuts of almost £2 billion in a decade to Scotland’s block resource […]
Read More…SNP MSP, Stuart McMillan, has hailed a Scottish Government announcement that promises to commit almost £500 million to expand early learning and childcare provision across Scotland. Announcing the Scottish Government’s draft budget proposals for 2019/20 in Holyrood last month, Finance Secretary Derek Mackay MSP outlined the investment that will support the SNP’s plan to almost […]
Read More…SNP MSP Stuart McMillan for Greenock and Inverclyde has given his backing to plans that will help provide an additional 350 school counsellors across Scotland. Last month, Finance Secretary Derek Mackay MSP announced his draft budget proposals for 2019/20 – outlining a £12 million increase in mental health funding for schools. If approved by MSPs, […]
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