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The processes, decisions and actions that enabled five senior Glasgow City Council officers to take significant early retirement and redundancy payouts fell short of the behaviours and standards expected of public servants.
Read our report here: bit.ly/Glasgow_City_C…
There is a risk that the action needed to prevent and tackle the already clear harms of flooding won’t happen at the scale and speed needed.
Almost 400,000 properties could be affected by flooding by 2080.
New @AuditorGenScot and @AccCommScot report: bit.ly/flood_resilien…
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Some public bodies and councils are working well together to tackle flooding, but face gaps in leadership, skills and data, and uncertainty about funding. This limits what can be achieved.
Our report with @AuditorGenScot: bit.ly/flood_resilien…
Accounts Commission member Derek Yule and BBC Scotland’s @BBCPhilipSim discussing debt across the country’s councils.
We recently published a briefing on local government budgets: bit.ly/Local_Governme…
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Our August meeting takes place on Thursday the 14th at 10:00.
Attendance at the public session is warmly welcomed.
You can register to watch online on the Audit Scotland website: bit.ly/Accounts_Commi…
This autumn, we'll be reviewing ‘The Promise’ made by @scotgov in 2020, which seeks to improve services and lived experience across the care system.
Read more about the joint @AuditorGenScot and @AccCommScot report: bit.ly/Improving_Care…
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It will help us hold local government to account, support improvement, and meet the needs of people across Scotland.
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The Accounts Commission's Christine Lester, Andrew Burns and Andrew Cowie visited Inverness to discuss the recent Best Value report with senior leaders from @HighlandCouncil.
You can read the report here: bit.ly/The_Highland_C…
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