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£1 million fraud at Aberdeen City Council sends a warning across local government

All Scottish councils must learn from the weaknesses that allowed an Aberdeen City Council employee’s ...

By Midlothian View

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Significant challenges ahead for local services in Orkney

COSLA, the organisation which represents Scotland’s local authorities, has welcomed the Draft Scottish Budget published on ...
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Citizens Agenda: What our partners did

Across Scotland, we have been asking our readers to tell us what they wanted candidates ...

By The Scottish Beacon

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Creating a Citizens Agenda: the issues people care most about

This year we took ran a Citizens Agenda project to provide citizen-centred reporting that better ...

By The Scottish Beacon

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What you need to know about the General Election in Scotland

This year’s general election will take place this summer – despite most of us being ...

By The Scottish Beacon

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