Publications

The Royal Society of Edinburgh and Audit Scotland held a roundtable discussion on public service reform in 2024.

Transparency needed on spending risks and plans for public services.

The Scottish Government has made progress in increasing residential rehabilitation capacity and implementing treatment standards.

Now reform is increasingly urgent – councils have never faced such acute challenges, putting budgets and workforce under severe stretch and strain.

Clearer leadership and focus needed to tackle digital exclusionAs more key services move online, all public bodies must deliver on their

A data matching exercise detected £21.5 million worth of fraud and payment errors across the Scottish public sector.

Community health and social care faces unprecedented pressures and financial uncertainty. In this Account Commission briefing about Scotland’s Integration…

The Scottish Government needs to develop a clear national strategy for health and social care to address the pressures on services.