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Best Value in policing: Joint Best Value audit of policing in Scotland

Policing in Scotland is well managed and led, but more needs to be done to reform the service and make the best use of its resources.

Best Value: North Lanarkshire Council

North Lanarkshire Council is focused on improving its residents’ lives and has strong foundations to make the major changes it needs to tackle tightening fin

Best Value: North Ayrshire Council

North Ayrshire Council ‘thinks big’ as it looks to the future, with a focus on improving services, reducing poverty and inequality, and proactively tackling

Delivering for the future: Responding to the workforce challenge

Scotland’s councils urgently need to make progress with workforce plans if they are to protect services and financial sustainability.

Best Value: East Lothian Council

East Lothian Council must make significant progress in changing how it delivers public services as it addresses significant demographic challenges, with rapi

Best Value: Renfrewshire Council

Renfrewshire Council has a strong commitment to improving, including creating a positive culture, supporting its staff to develop as leaders, and focusing on

Best Value: The Highland Council

An ambitious plan to improve transport, roads and buildings, as well as a greater shift to using digital to deliver services, has the potential to transform

Best Value: Argyll and Bute Council

Argyll and Bute Council has a real opportunity to harness a long-standing culture of innovation as it looks to close a funding gap of nearly £29 million, ret