The Scottish Government, councils and partners did well to increase early learning and childcare (ELC) provision to 1,140 hours a year per child, despite the challenge of the Covid-19...
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Radical change is needed across Scotland’s councils
Scotland’s councils must radically change how they operate – particularly how they collaborate with partners – if they are to improve and maintain services to their communities. Councils...
What we do
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Find out more about each of the areas below:
Who we engage with
The public in general are our principal stakeholder but we engage with a wide range of others.

Who we engage with:
- Audit Scotland
- Auditor General
- Citizens
- Parliament and Government: Government ministers, MSPs, Parliament committees
- Local government: councils, joint boards, COSLA, SLGP, SOLACE, Improvement Service
- Councils' community planning partners: public, private and third sectors, local communities
- Other stakeholders: Equalities and Human Rights Commission, other UK audit and scrutiny bodies, professional bodies, trade unions
- Press and broadcasting media
- Scrutiny partners
- Private sector audit firms
Latest publications
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Early learning and childcare: Progress on delivery of the 1,140 hours expansion
June 1, 2023 -
Local government in Scotland: Overview 2023
May 17, 2023 -
Homelessness affects us all - action is needed
April 27, 2023 -
Mainstreaming equality: Progress report 2021-23
April 25, 2023 -
Integration Joint Boards: Financial analysis 2021/22
April 6, 2023 -
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