The Improvement Service (IS) is the national improvement organisation for local government in Scotland.
Our purpose is to help councils and their partners to improve the health, quality of life and opportunities of all people in Scotland through community leadership, strong local governance and the delivery of high quality, efficient local services.
Through a series of principles, the IS works to promote improvement in local government and among its partners to support them improve outcomes and reduce the outcome gaps within populations and within areas.
The IS delivers a range of products and services that support CPPs to build their capacity to deliver the public service reform agenda.
The IS has a non-partisan role to support all elected members in Scotland.
Latest Publication
A review of the impact of 2016-17 local authority budget cuts on the provision of money advice services which are funded and/or delivered by local authorities.
As well as news from the Improvement Service other news relevant to local government improvement in Scotland. is also published. The Improvement Service welcomes contributions from Scottish local authorities and partner organisations. If you have a story you would like to share, contact us.
The Improvement Services produces a series of newsletters on a range of subjects, including myaccount, elected members, tellmescotland as well as the main IS newsletter. Subscribe on this page.
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Find out about all the events and activities organised by the Improvement Service or of interest to Scottish local authorities here. If you would like to add an event to this calendar, please contact info@improvementservice.org.uk
You can quickly browse events from the calendar opposite, or go to the events page for full details of all events.
Self-assessment in Community Planning Partnerships (CPPs)
| Area | Level/Theme | Start Date |
|---|---|---|
| Dundee | Alcohol and Drug Partnership | February 2014 |
| Healthy Dundee | September 2014 | |
| Learning and Culture | September 2014 | |
| Board | October 2014 | |
| Renfrewshire | Board | February 2014 |
| Fife | Health and Wellbeing Alliance | March 2014 |
| Angus | Board | June 2014 |
| Highland | Board | June 2014 |
| East Lothian | Board | October 2014 |
| Moray | Board | November 2014 |
| Shetland | Board | March 2015 |
| East Dunbartonshire | Board | October 2015 |
| Inverclyde | Board | December 2015 |
| Midlothian | Board | January 2016 |
| Western Isles | Board | June 2016 |
| South Lanarkshire | Board | December 2016 |
