Budget scrutiny 2023-24: Funding for culture

The Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee of the Scottish Parliament is seeking views on budgetary spending on culture.

Bòrd na Gàidhlig has submitted a response that has included the points:

“Increasing support for Gaelic arts and culture should be a priority. That will allow its continued growth, increasing its social and economic impacts.”

“Increased support will help to ensure that everybody in Scotland has access to Gaelic arts. That will reflect Gaelic’s place as a national language. This can be achieved by normalising Gaelic within the work of national level organisations such as Creative Scotland. That, in turn, will enhance Scotland’s image as a diverse country.”

You can read the full response here.

Scottish Fire & Rescue Service Strategic Plan 2022-25 – Bòrd na Gàidhlig Response

Bòrd na Gàidhlig has submitted a response to the consultation – Scottish Fire & Rescue Service Strategic Plan 2022-25. A number of points and recommendations have been raised, including:

We recommend that your Gaelic Language Plan should be included in your list of “Existing SFRS Strategies/Plans that will help us achieve our strategic outcomes”. 

There should be a reference here to SFRS’s own Gaelic Language Plan and that it contains various obligations regarding Gaelic. The text should then state that the Gaelic Language Plan refers to “Promoting recruitment of Gaelic speakers to ensure the language is increasingly visible and used in the workplace and this serves to ensure that SFRS “reflects the communities of modern Scotland”.

Responses to other consultations are available here.