Publications

This handbook provides a framework for local authorities - based on the Accounts Commission's Best Value performance management and planning audit - to help the

The report concerns the management of the project to provide the new Scottish Parliament building at Holyrood.

The Accounts Commission and Audit Scotland have developed a detailed audit approach to assess and support each council's progress in developing its PMP framewor

Councils need to improve the way they manage data and information.

The study finds that the £44 million rent arrears bill in Scotland could be reduced by as much as £8 million if councils and Registered Social Landlords (

Robert Black, the Auditor General for Scotland has reported to the Parliament on the Agricultural Business Improvement Scheme (ABIS).

Within the last two years local authorities in Scotland have succeeded in setting up community safety partnerships to help create safer places for people to liv

Council refuse collection services are much more efficient than they used to be following the wide-spread introduction of kerb-side wheelie bins and bigger refu