Follow funding through its conditions, local staffing decisions and the evidence needed to establish what happened to employment afterwards.
Manifesto review in progress. Selected source extracts; campaign approval is still pending. This is not a complete policy audit or an assessment of delivery.
Reading rule
Keep every stage separate.
A funding allocation, a workforce target, a council decision and a permanent job are different pieces of evidence. Unknown stages are shown as unknown rather than filled with an inferred number.
Documented
Stage 1 of 4 / 2026/27
Funding conditions
The reviewed PEF guidance describes additional targeted support and explicitly tells decision-makers to account for staffing costs when recruited staff become permanent.
FUND-PEF-20262026-03-25
Pupil Equity Funding national operational guidance 2026–27: staffing considerations
Scottish Government
Staffing subsection
What this source can and cannot establish
Additionality and employment security are different questions. The guidance does not guarantee an individual post or future funding.
