The wake of the Equal Pay scandal in Scottish Local Authorities has resulted – rightly – in significant compensation payments from Councils to the women affected by underpayment over many years. The cost to Glasgow of these settlements has been calculated at £700 million and the Council has decided to raise much this money by […]
LOBO Loans a Low-Blow to Struggling Local Authorities
This week has been awash with news on the Scottish debt problem. Put simply every year Scottish Local Authorities are forced to allocate on average 42% of their income from council tax to servicing debts, many of them procured since 2008. The problem is not that local authorities have been borrowing to finance large scale […]