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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Statements, Consultation Responses, Govt Reporting
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Written evidence to the Local Government and Communities Committee on the Single Outcome Agreement approach and on the ‘Interim Report from Local Government on the 1st Phase Single Outcome Agreements in 2008-09’. This paper provides the Committee with information which supplements the Interim Report, in advance of the oral evidence session on 27 May 2009. It briefly covers: the context for reporting on Single Outcome Agreements (SOAs); the practicalities of reporting; the Community Planning process; and next steps.
The Scottish Parliament's Local Government & Communities Committee is following the development of Single Outcome Agreements and received this written evidence for its meeting on 18 June 2008.
The purpose of this document is to provide an updated position statement on the Benefits Realisation Reporting Framework for Customer First, under the management arrangements of the Improvement Service.
A briefing note for the Finance Committee of the Scottish Parliament on the Improvement Service's task to assess the potential of using Council's budget planning and monitoring frameworks for monitoring delivery of efficient government savings and produce a reliable estimate of efficiency gains for 2006/2006.
