Government Announces Support For Scots

At a government-organised conference at Stirling University, held on Monday 9 February, Linda Fabiani, Minister for Culture, announced that the Scottish Government would take over the current funding provision from the Scottish Arts Council in respect of the main Scots language organisations. Fabiani was speaking in relation to a recent government audit of Scots language provision. Both Scottish Language Dictionaries and the Scots language Centre, whose futures were uncertain, will be funded directly by government from October this year.