Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has set out reforms to school testing as part of efforts to improve educational attainment in Scotland’s schools. The moves form part of the SNP...
Family carers for vulnerable children in Scotland are likely to be left worse off under Universal Credit because of the UK government’s failure to take proper account of Scotland’s different legal...
Scottish ministers are being warned of a mounting crisis in health provision after new figures showed the number of out-of-hours GP consultations last year to be approaching a million.
CIPFA has launched a new guide to the implementation of reforms to social care provision in Scotland that are designed to lead to greater personalisation of support.
Scotland’s broad-based commission on a replacement for the council tax is highly unlikely to arrive at a consensus, Local Government Minister Marco Biagi admitted in a speech today to the CIPFA...
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...
Delivering world-class public audit in changing circumstances demands that we think differently and experiment. Scotland is pointing the way, writes Caroline Gardner
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.
