Finance concerns over planned shake-up of Scottish councils

Scottish local government has hit its biggest period of flux in a generation – but have the implications for the sector’s financial sustainability been fully thought through?

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First minister John Swinney last month pledged to overhaul councils as part of the “most radical re-shaping of public services” since the establishment of

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