Scottish Government accused of 'rhetoric but no action' on local government
Councillor Alison Evison, said the government’s “rhetoric on empowering the local does not match the reality” and as a result local democracy was in a “dangerous position”.
Writing in The Scotsman, she said the lack of action was “neither sustainable nor healthy” and that it flies in the face of the Christie Commission report on the Future Delivery of public services, which was published ten years ago today.
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Hide AdThe Christie report, written by the former Scottish Trades Union Congress General Secretary Campbell Christie, stated that “unless Scotland embraces a radical, new, collaborative culture throughout our public services, both budgets and provision will buckle under the strain.”