In a move set to devolve more budgetary power to local authorities, the Scottish Government, after consultation with CoSLA, will stop issuing 'advisory floors', which since 2002 have set a minimum level for pre-school education places. Instead, it will be up to each local authority to decide funding. The Scottish Government wrote to all local authority education and finance directors last week to advise them of the plan. It said, 'It will be for...