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Following consultation with local government and other stakeholders the Accounts Commission's Strategy document for 2001-2004 is now published.

Councils could save £68 million.

The Accounts Commission remains concerned that, four years after local government reorganisation, there are still weaknesses in many councils' financial systems

Councils in Scotland have met the Scottish Executive target for guaranteeing free pre-school education for all four-year-olds and are already close to meeting t

The report highlights that Scotland's councils collected just over 88% of the £1.26billion council tax due for the year, within 1999/2000.

Audit Scotland has produced a paper to support the development of performance information in councils.

The report shows that nearly nine out of ten food hygiene inspections in higher risk premises are undertaken within time, 94% of complaints noise complaints wer

The report shows that 96% of 4-year-olds and 76% of 3-year-olds had a place in pre-school education, the average number of pupils per class in primary schools f