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This month we focused in our public session on the Controller of Audit’s Best Value Assurance Report on Falkirk Council.
We would like to thank all elected officials and officers for their cooperation in the audit process. And we’re very grateful that so many members of the council and members of the public were able to join us in our livestream session.
It is a great opportunity to learn more about how your council’s performing, and we also always welcome you virtually.
We asked the Controller and the audit team about the council’s leadership and decision making, as well as the financial challenges Falkirk Council is facing.
We asked how it tackles inequalities while empowering local communities and what its plans are for implementing its ambitious change programme, with a particular view to social and health care services.
We decided as a commission to accept the report and make findings, which you will find together with the report on our website from January 2022.
In our private session we considered our strategy for future social care audit work, which in the current discussions around a national care service is ever more important for us and for so many families in Scotland.