Finding ways to save money is now an ‘increasingly critical’ activity for cash-strapped councils, Scotland’s local authority watchdog, the Accounts Commission, has found.
The commission today said councils were balancing a funding cut of 9.6% in real terms over the last eight years with increasing demand, particularly from a growing older population.
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