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The Scottish Prison Service should assess more closely whether its skills courses and behavioural programmes for prisoners are successful in reducing re-offendi

These performance indicators show that in 2003/04 Scottish councils improved in a number of key areas.

The Auditor General, Robert Black, has said there is a need to improve long-term financial planning to help ensure that the large sums of money going into the N

The Accounts Commission for Scotland has a duty under the Local Government Act 1992 to direct local authorities to publish certain information on their performa

This report says that a backlog of road maintenance has been building up for around ten years; 13% of the network (7,000 km) is now in need of repair.

This report finds that all fire authorities have made improvements. However modernisation is a long term project and there is still more work to be done.

This report finds that the Scottish Prison Service followed the rules when handling the tender process for prisoner escort and court custody services in Scotlan

This report says that councils and the NHS need to do more to improve the planning, organisation and delivery of equipment and adaptation services to support pe