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Getting it right for children in residential care
Residential child care services should be managed better to help children and young people achieve their full potential.
How councils work: an improvement series for councillors and officers - Roles and working relationships: are you getting it right?
The report provides checklists, examples and other information to help councils assess their current working practices and identify how they might better equ
Best Value in Police evaluation
Accounts Commission and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary respond to independent review of joint pilot Best Value audit and inspections in Tay
Emergency departments
An Audit Scotland report, Emergency departments, says patient satisfaction with emergency care services is high, and four out of five patients we su
The Gathering
There are important lessons to be learned by all public bodies about using the private sector to help deliver their objectives following the losses incurred thr
Health and community care bulletin 2010
The bulletin primarily aims to share information with non-executive health board members and elected members of councils, but it also provides a summary of ou
Using locum doctors in hospitals
The NHS in Scotland could save almost 15 per cent of the money it spends on locum doctors in hospitals – or about £6 million a year - through bet
The National Fraud Initiative in Scotland 2008/09
A national detection exercise by Audit Scotland and other public bodies has identified fraud and error overpayments, savings and other outcomes worth more th