The 'go to' organisation for Local Government improvement in Scotland

A performance management framework designed to measure the performance and impact of council-funded money and welfare rights advice services.

A data and benchmarking tool to help community planning partnerships assess if the lives of people in their communities are improving.

LGBF brings together a wide range of information about how all Scottish councils perform in delivering services to local communities.

The Public Service Improvement Framework (PSIF) is a self-assessment approach to support improvement in organisations.

The simple and secure sign-in service for online public services in Scotland.

A simple and secure sign-in service for businesses in Scotland using online public services.

Enabling and creating a digital relationship between parents, pupils and schools.

An online data matching and cleansing solution for the Scottish public sector.

A smartcard used to provide public services to Scottish residents.

The definitive register of all addresses in Scotland.

A single point of access to quality-assured Scottish local authority data, in a consistent format.

Scotland's national public notice portal containing public notices from across Scotland in a single online location.

The UK’s largest public service collaboration platform.

The IS can help you with webinars for sharing good practice, interesting examples, sparking discussion and interactive training sessions.

Support for local authorities and stakeholders to raise awareness of the benefits of a trauma-informed approach across systems, services and the workforce.

The Associates Framework provides flexible access to a wide range of expert support and resources to help the Improvement Service, community planning partnerships and councils.

The change team helps councils and their partners to deliver transformational and operational level change.

Our climate change programme looks at how we embed climate change across all our work, and supports local government in its ambitions to reach Net Zero targets.

The Scottish Community Councils project provides information, support and resources for Scotland’s 1,200 community councils and the 10,000+ volunteers who serve as community councillors.

The Community Planning Improvement Board (CPIB) provides improvement support for community planning in Scotland.

Providing business analysis and knowledge management support to Scottish Government and councils in the planning and implementation of the expansion to 1140 hours of funded early learning and childcare by August 2021, and in wider service refinement and improvement. This work will continue as we support councils in the sustainable delivery of this transformative expansion.

Assisting councils and their partners in effective workforce planning.

The programme works to help councils maximise the impact of their economic development activities.

Support for implementation of the Fairer Scotand Duty to reduce inequalities of outcome related to socio-economic disadvantage.

Improving the impact of Scotland’s money advice services and supporting councils and their partners in this process.

Working with local authorities and health boards to support the development of Local Child Poverty Action Reports and ensure they are an effective lever for tackling child poverty in Scotland.

The ‘Money Guiders’ programme seeks to help organisations and practitioners deliver money guidance well throughout the UK.

Supporting capacity building to improve the performance and effectiveness of organisations.

Supporting councils and their partners to collaborate in place-based approaches to joint planning, resourcing and delivery of places that enable all communities to flourish.

Exploring opportunities to share services among the 32 roads authorities and Transport Scotland.

The Shaping Places for Wellbeing Programme is a delivery partnership between the Improvement Service and PHS, funded and supported by the Health Foundation and Scottish Government with support from COSLA.

Leading the development of spatial information products and a collective approach to collective data management across Scottish local government.

Coordinating the National Violence Against Women Network to help councils and their partners to improve outcomes for women, children and young people affected by violence.

Helping to embed welfare rights and money advisors within healthcare settings.

A continuous professional development framework for Scottish councillors developed in partnership with local government.

A series of notebooks providing information, guidance and support to community planning partnership (CPP) board members.

Support for the professional development of Scotland's councillors.

Addressing learning and development needs in planning services.

SQA-accredited qualifications for people working in change management.

Products and services to help you make the best use of your data, supporting decision-making and service planning.

Working with councils and other key partners to carry out and/or support evaluations covering a range of activities.

Our research team manages analytical projects, undertakes bespoke analysis, and conducts independent research projects in order to improve the local government evidence base.

Sub-council population projections provide a forecast of the future population size and structure for small areas within local authorities.