Daily roundup: Employment training, Scottish reforms, and premature babies

A £6m government grant is to help 5,000 young people in the Liverpool region find work. The funding will be targeted at young people with the most needs, including those with disabilities and care leavers, with personal budgets also being available to give young people the chance to buy in the support they need. The scheme will be used across the local authority areas of Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton and Wirral.

The Scottish Parliament’s education and culture committee has backed the Scottish Government’s plans to introduce a named person to oversee the care of every vulnerable child. The committee also backed proposals to introduce 600 hours of free childcare provision to vulnerable children, and for greater support to be given to care leavers. However, it failed to back calls from some charities for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child to be incorporated into Scottish law through the Children and Young People (Scotland) Bill.