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featuredNational Benchmarking Overview Report 2024-25The 14th annual National Benchmarking Overview Report has been published, looking at data from 2024/25.
It finds that funding levels for councils have not kept pace with growing demand, inflation and expanding national commitments. Scotland’s councils face ongoing financial, workforce, and demand pressures that have become embedded in the system and are approaching the limits of what they can achieve with current resources.
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featuredEconomic and workforce implications for Scotland’s changing populationWith Scotland’s working age population shrinking and ageing, skills and labour shortages are becoming an increasing concern.
Our new report, Navigating Population Change - Economic and workforce implications for Scotland, outlines the relationship between population change and jobs and the economy and how local authorities can address this.
Read Navigating Population Change - Economic and workforce implications for Scotland
19 Sep 2025
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NewsModelling Demand for Local Government ServicesNewsA new Improvement Service report suggests that Scottish councils would have needed to spend almost £10 billion more in 2024-25 to keep pace with population-driven demand pressures. Read more
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Latest Developments Across Early Learning, Workforce Support and Child Poverty ReformNews -
New UNCRC Resource: Putting Children’s Rights at the Heart of your ServiceNews -
New briefings published by the Improvement Service are highlighting Glasgow’s pioneering work to tackle child poverty through public service reformNews
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