The UK’s devolved governments are set on a collision course with Chancellor George Osborne over his proposal to abolish national pay deals in the public sector.
Scottish councils might not be able to continue to improve their performance across all areas as financial pressures mount, Scotland’s spending watchdog has concluded.
The annual report on Scotland’s public finances has sparked an intense row between nationalists and unionists over whether the country punches above or below its weight in the UK economy.
Scottish public spending could now take two years longer than anticipated to return to pre-austerity levels, Finance Secretary John Swinney has claimed.
First Minister Alex Salmond’s independence referendum is only one of several possible routes to Scottish constitutional change, according to the chair of the think-tank behind the ‘devo-plus’...
Scottish councils and NHS boards must raise their game urgently if they are to provide vital social care services on tighter budgets, Audit Scotland has warned.
A controversial deal that cut supply teachers’ pay to fund other educational priorities has left most Scottish councils struggling to meet requests for temporary cover, according to a Labour Party...
The Accounts Commission has ordered an inquiry into a controversial deal whereby the chief of Scotland’s biggest fire brigade was able to return to post just weeks after retiring
First Minister Alex Salmond today challenged David Cameron to spell out the additional devolved powers which he says could come to Holyrood if Scots vote against independence.
Scotland is to overhaul its public procurement systems after a think-tank study found they were stacked against Scottish firms, losing the country millions of pounds of business.
Scotland’s further education colleges are to be grouped into 12 new regional clusters to eliminate duplication and cut costs, Scottish Education Secretary Michael Russell has told MSPs.
A broad coalition of civil groups today launched itself into Scotland’s constitutional debate, but insisted that it was not the civic vehicle that First Minister Alex Salmond has suggested could...
More than 2,000 police support jobs face the axe in the coming year, ahead of reform of Scotland’s eight regional forces into a single national police service.
The Scottish Government yesterday revealed the question that it plans to ask in Scotland’s 2014 independence referendum: ‘Do you agree that Scotland should be an independent country?’
Scottish local government leaders have accepted that the country’s eight regional police forces will be merged into a single national service, but say councils must be fully involved for the change...
The UK coalition’s defence cuts leave Scotland with ‘exactly the configuration’ it needs for its armed forces after independence, First Minister Alex Salmond has claimed.
The 710,000 public sector job losses now expected by 2017 will hit the devolved nations and the Northeast hardest, the Trades Union Congress said today.
