The national improvement service 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.
We do this by providing a range of products and providing advisory services including consultation and facilitation, learning and skills, performance management and improvement, and research.
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.
- Economic Outcomes Programme
- Fairer Scotland Duty
- Improving Outcomes in Money Advice
- Linking Community and Spatial Planning
- National Co-ordinator - Child Poverty Action Reports
- Organisational Development
- Community Planning Improvement Board
- Planning for Place
- Roads Collaboration Programme
- Spatial Information Service
- Tackling Violence Against Women
- Welfare Advice and Health Partnerships
- Workforce Planning
Data and Intelligence
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.
See past issues of the IS newsletter
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.
Blog: Shared Lives Moray
Step into STEM
Four ways planning can improve wellbeing across Scotland
Scottish citizens can now use digital identity app Yoti to securely access their Improvement Service myaccount
IS signs agreement with Local Government Digital Partnership
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Inclusive Growth - an Elected Member Briefing
Scottish Citizens Basic Income Feasibility Project - Elected Member Briefing
National Benchmarking Overview Report 2017-18
Elected Member Briefing Note: Affordable Credit
Case Study: Renfrewshire Advice Services Partnership
Elected Member Webinar: Child Poverty
RELATED SITES
Local Government Benchmarking Framework
Performance information for all Scottish councils
Community Planning in Scotland Portal
Support for partnerships from national improvement agencies and programmes
Innovation Exchange
Case studies of innovative projects and approaches to service delivery from Scottish local authorities
Spatial Hub
The source of Scottish local authority spatial data
Tellme Scotland
Public Information Notices for Scotland
One Scotland Gazetteer
A address database of land and property in Scotland.
