The Scottish Government has today been urged to review its reoffending prevention services after auditors found the funding could be used more effectively.
A contract signed today between the Scottish Government and Network Rail will reconnect the Scottish Borders to the rail network, more than 40 years after the Beeching cuts left it the only mainland...
The bodies representing Scotland’s third sector in community planning and local service delivery aim to transform themselves into a major new national force in public policy debate over the coming...
The UK government has no contingency plans in its Trident replacement programme for Scotland voting ‘yes’ in the independence referendum, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond claimed today.
Procedures for delivering children’s care services are loaded in favour of local authority provision and are failing vulnerable Scottish youngsters, an alliance of third and private sector providers...
Scotland should be given greater tax raising powers as part of a shift to federal government in the UK, the Liberal Democrats’ Home Rule Commission said yesterday.
David Cameron and Alex Salmond today met at the First Minister’s office in Edinburgh to sign the agreement that paves the way for a legally binding referendum in autumn 2014 on Scottish independence.
Complaint cases against the police in Scotland rose by 4% last year but allegations against officers soared by 13%, according to independent police complaints commissioner Professor John McNeill.
Former Scottish auditor general Bob Black has questioned whether the Scottish Government will continue to be able to fund a range of free public services amid spending cuts.
The UK government might have avoided the West Coast rail franchise debacle had it been prepared to involve Holyrood in the process, Scotland’s transport minister told MSPs this afternoon.
Inadequate performance management systems are preventing Scottish local authorities from properly comparing their activities, according to the Accounts Commission.
Affordable housing will be a priority for the Scottish Futures Trust in the next financial year, finance director Peter Reekie has told Public Finance.
Scottish Finance Secretary John Swinney is to end the public sector pay freeze and boost capital spending, he announced today in his draft Budget for 2013/14.
The Electoral Commission has given a clean bill of health to the conduct of this year’s Scottish local elections, in marked contrast to the 2007 poll, which caused widespread confusion and anger.
First Minister Alex Salmond has announced a rare reshuffle of his Scottish National Party government, primarily aimed at putting his deputy Nicola Sturgeon in charge of strategic planning for the...
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...
First Minister Alex Salmond today announced a 15-strong legislative programme for Holyrood in the coming year, dominated by the Bill to hold a referendum on Scottish independence in autumn 2014.
