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    Benefits, Finance and Corporate issues - Performance indicators 1999/2000

    The report highlights that Scotland's councils collected just over 88% of the £1.26billion council tax due for the year, within 1999/2000. It also shows that councils paid less…

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    Getting to know your services - A step-by-step guide to developing and using information portfolios to monitor and report performance

    Audit Scotland has produced a paper to support the development of performance information in councils. Getting to know your services provides step-by-step guidance to managers on…

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    Regulatory services - Performance indicators 1999/2000

    The report shows that nearly nine out of ten food hygiene inspections in higher risk premises are undertaken within time, 94% of complaints noise complaints were dealt with within…

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    Environmental services - Performance indicators 1999/2000

    The report highlights that despite continued efforts to improve Scotland's record on recycling household waste, councils still sent 93% of waste to landfill in 1999/2000. Only…

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    Education services- Performance indicators 1999/2000

    The report shows that 96% of 4-year-olds and 76% of 3-year-olds had a place in pre-school education, the average number of pupils per class in primary schools fell slightly to…

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    Progress report on Inverclyde Council - SR 2001/1

    The Controller of Audit reports to the Accounts Commission on the progress made to date by Inverclyde Council in improving its financial procedures. While good progress has been…

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    Managing People in the NHS in Scotland

    This self-assessment pack has been produced by Audit Scotland to assist line managers and auditors in the review of managing people in NHSiS trusts and to monitor progress towards…

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    The map to success - Using process mapping to improve performance

    This management paper explains what process mapping is and how it can be used to improve service delivery. The paper demonstrates the use of process mapping with examples from…

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    Waste management in Scottish hospitals

    The handling of clinical waste from Scottish hospitals by NHS trusts meets high environmental and safety standards, according to a report published today by the Auditor General,…

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    Leisure and libraries - Performance indicators 1999/2000

    The report highlights the difficulties faced by councils' library services in meeting national targets for replacing old book stock and the continuing inability of a number of…