This document is a news release from East Renfrewshire, outlining the opening of a new business park at Spiershill where users can hot-desk and make use of wireless connections.

This report investigates public attitudes towards local government in Scotland, focusing in particular on public satisfaction with local authority services. It provides an overview of resident satisfaction with local council service areas, and explores how service use, and demographic and attitudinal variables, can influence public evaluations of local government services. Finally, it outlines key factors that drive public satisfaction with local government, which it is particularly important for local authorities to harness if they are to improve their public image.

A brief introduction to local government in Scotland. The article includes an outline of the Scottish local government landscape and summarises council roles and functions, council structures, policy developments that have impacted local government and recent electoral change. An Annex outlines the history of local government structure in Scotland.