Although the Scottish Government has taken a ‘step in the right direction’, panellists at CIPFA’s Public Finance Debate warned the NHS in Scotland is unsustainable. Kerry Lorimer reports.
Scotland’s auditor general has given the Scottish Government a clean bill of health for the accounting and management of its £34bn budget in 2016-17, but warned ministers that they will...
Scottish auditor general Caroline Gardner has today raised concerns about the weak financial leadership in the country’s policing bodies and stated their continuing poor financial management was...
Scotland’s local government watchdog has reiterated concerns about the finances of East Dunbartonshire Council and warned the authority is not on schedule to make the £27.6m in savings it needs in...
Poor record-keeping means that some Scottish councils pay for the upkeep of property they don’t own, according to the official in charge of the Scottish Land Register.
Scotland’s auditor general has said she intends to keep a close eye on the Scottish government’s highly controversial plan to allocate every child in Scotland a public sector “named person” from...
Chief secretary to the Treasury Greg Hands is expected to table fresh proposals to break the deadlock over funding arrangements for Scotland’s new devolved tax powers at a meeting in London today...
Plans to integrate health and social care provision in Scotland face significant risks that must be addressed if the reform is to improve how services are delivered, a report has found.
The Auditor General for Scotland has warned Scottish ministers that they need to develop better financial reporting ahead of the devolution of new fiscal powers.
The merger of Scotland’s eight fire and rescue authorities into a central national service was conducted well and the service is effectively managed, but a major funding gap looms, according to...
Auditors have called on the Scottish Government to set out proposals to improve its financial reporting to take account of the new fiscal powers being devolved to Holyrood.
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...
Former CIPFA president Caroline Gardner is back at Audit Scotland, sowing the seeds of good financial management and tackling the public sector’s perennial problems. She tells PF that her past...