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WELFARE
Council benefits teams struggling, auditors warn
By Mark Conrad | 14 February 2023
People are waiting longer for housing benefit claims while Scotland’s councils face soaring workl...
SCOTLAND
Levelling Up Fund a 'waste of time'
By Martin Ford | 08 February 2023
A minister has defended how the latest round of Levelling Up Fund cash was distributed after the ...
FINANCE
Ban on teacher redundancies will shift cuts
By Martin Ford | 06 February 2023
A moratorium on reducing teacher numbers in Scotland will only lead to service cuts elsewhere, a ...
FINANCE
Call for fiscal freedom
By Martin Ford | 01 February 2023
Scotland’s councils face their ‘most difficult’ year of budget setting, politicians in Holyrood h...
WHITEHALL
Abuse inquiry in risk warning
By Mark Conrad | 17 January 2023
Experts have warned Whitehall’s rejection of key proposals from the Independent Inquiry into Chil...
FINANCE
Scottish councils face 'most difficult budget' for years
By Martin Ford | 12 January 2023
Councils in Scotland face the 'most difficult budget setting context seen for many years,’ a fina...
ADULT SOCIAL CARE
Scotland's care crisis and the seven regions worst hit
By Will Donnelly | 19 December 2022
Will Donnelly reveals the seven Scottish regions hardest hit by Scotland’s care crisis and outlin...
CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Stirling chief announces departure
By Martin Ford | 07 December 2022
Carol Beattie is standing down after four years as chief executive.
DEVOLUTION
Labour launches its plans for devo without the detail
By Heather Jameson | 07 December 2022
Heather Jameson says Gordon Brown’s report is more notable for what it lacks than the warm words ...
ECONOMIC GROWTH
Labour outlines huge devolution push
By Mark Conrad | 05 December 2022
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has proposed removing the ‘dead hand of centralisation’ by devolvi...
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