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NHS in Scotland 2021
The Scottish Government must focus on transforming health and social care services to address the growing cost of the NHS and its recovery from Covid-19.
Planning for skills
The Scottish Government needs to take urgent action to ensure essential progress in improving how workforce skills are planned and provided.
Local government in Scotland Overview 2021
Councils and communities worked well together, but impacts of Covid-19 are unequal.
Improving outcomes for young people through school education
Attainment gap remains wide and better education data needed Progress on closing the poverty-related attainment gap betwee
NHS in Scotland 2020
The Scottish Government acted quickly to prevent the NHS from being overwhelmed by Covid-19, but it could have been better prepared to respond to the pandemi
Local government in Scotland: Financial overview 2019/20
Council finances increased in 2019/20, but Covid-19 will intensify pressures.
Digital progress in local government
Covid-19 has accelerated the use of digital technology in councils
The National Fraud Initiative in Scotland 2018/19
Covid-19 raises risk of public-sector fraud