Unprecedented pressures lie ahead for Scottish local government finances, and councils need effective long-term plans to prepare for them, the Accounts Commission for Scotland warns today in its...
Plans by the London-based parties to give the Scottish Parliament limited new powers over shaping and setting benefits could make life worse for vulnerable people and carers, the leader of Scotland’s...
Revenue Scotland, the new tax collection agency due to come into force in Scotland from April 1, is fully ready to take over, Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney has told the UK Treasury.
Scotland’s Community Planning Partnerships (CPPs) remain inconsistent in their leadership, collaboration and scrutiny, unclear in their ambitions and uneven in their supervision, according to Audit...
A former Scottish Government cabinet minister has called for a restructuring of Scottish local government and other public bodies in response to plans to devolve significant extra powers to Holyrood.
Expanded tax powers for Holyrood will increase the importance of infrastructure spending in Scotland in the wake of the independence referendum, senior figures in the Scottish Government’s project...
The new chair of Scotland’s local government spending watchdog has told the country’s 32 councils they will have to be more innovative and open-minded about service delivery to meet renewed budgetary...
The number of staff employed by the Scottish Executive has increased by 32% since the devolved Parliament was set up in 1999, latest figures have disclosed.