Trade unions and council leaders are still struggling to reach an agreement on this year’s pay offer despite meeting with a senior minister, amid the looming threat of strike action.
Scottish local government leaders have rejected claims from a union that they missed a crucial meeting to discuss the 2022-23 pay offer amid looming industrial action.
Council workers in Scotland look increasingly likely to take industrial action if demands for a larger pay rise amid high inflation are not met, according to a union official.
The Scottish government must rethink last month's local government settlement or risk disastrous consequences for communities, say COSLA's Alison Evison and Gail Macgregor.
Funding from the Scottish Government will only meet between 60% and 70% of overall financial pressures identified by councils, according to the country’s local government spending watchdog.
A new package of funding and financing flexibilities for local authorities in Scotland will allow councils to use capital receipts to meet funding pressures.
Social care workers in Scotland are set to receive an immediate 3.3% pay increase, backdated to 1 April – following negotiations around increasing their pay to the real living wage.
The Scottish Government has been warned that years of cuts to council budgets will put its own targets on economic growth, climate change and child poverty at risk, as well as weakening pride in...
Kerry Lorimer meets Gail Macgregor, resources spokesperson for the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, who has proved to be a doughty champion for local democracy and fiscal empowerment.
Significant sums of public money are at risk as financial controls within councils come under increasing strain, according to the public spending watchdog for Scottish local government.
Improvement in some council services is starting to slow for the first time in almost a decade against a backdrop of declining public satisfaction, according to the latest overview of local...
Scottish councils have called for a 2.5% increase in funding in the forthcoming budget, saying recent tight settlements and a lack of fiscal autonomy have left local government with “no room to...
