Scotland

By Martin Ford | 30 August 2022

Scottish trade unions are planning further strike action after rejecting employers’ improved 5% p...

FINANCE

Watchdog 'deeply concerned' over council's finances

By Martin Ford | 25 August 2022

The Accounts Commission is ‘not confident’ Shetland Islands Council is ‘financially sustainable’.

Scottish Labour proposes council funding overhaul

By Martin Ford | 24 August 2022

Local government funding in Scotland would be overseen by an independent body under an overhaul p...

PAY

Scottish council workers reject 5% pay offer

By William Eichler | 24 August 2022

Waste service workers will today go on strike across 14 local authority areas in Scotland after t...

HOUSING

Homelessness system 'on brink of failure'

By Martin Ford | 22 August 2022

A housing charity has said people presenting as homeless in central Scotland are being asked to m...

PAY

COSLA raises pay offer

By Martin Ford | 22 August 2022

An improved offer of a 5% pay increase looks unlikely to halt industrial action by council worker...

PAY

Sturgeon urges councils to increase pay offer

By Martin Ford | 18 August 2022

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has intervened in the council worker pay dispute, urging ...

LONDON COUNCILS

Navigating asylum

By Mark Conrad | 17 August 2022

How have councils reacted to the Government’s Full Dispersal proposals for a fairer distribution ...

HEALTH

Councils legally required to offer free period products

By William Eichler | 15 August 2022

Scotland today became the first country in the world to protect in law the right to access free p...

PLANNING

Town centres: balancing flexibility with long-term and meaningful change

By Rory Alexander | 12 August 2022

The impact of the Scottish Government’s second review of the Permitted Development Order introduc...

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