Library
Our library contains documents held on the Improvement Service site together with links to documents held externally. A list of websites which also hold publications and information useful to those working in local government is available in our Information Sources section.
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Policy
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COSLA and Scottish Government Joint statement
Building a Better Scotland - Efficient Government; Securing Efficiency; Effectiveness; and Productivity (2004)
The document sets out the Executive's targets for closing the opportunity gap.
Paper sets out a framework for action in the form of a challenge. It includes work on all the determinants of health, with particular focus on five of the top ten risk factors affecting health and four specific areas (early years, teenage transition, workplace, communities).
Health White Paper on the promotion of health in the broadest possible sense and the creation of a health service fit for the 21st Century. It builds on Our National Health: A plan for action, a plan for change.
Full text of the Local Government Act 2003.
