Interesting 'Bomb Pattern'
I visited the web site of the Improvement Service (IS) a few weeks ago.
The Improvement Service is an unelected public body - set up by COSLA and the Scottish government some years ago - with the aim of helping local councils to improve local services - by adopting best practice and becoming more efficient.
Interestingly the membership of the IS board is shown as follows:
Interesting 'bomb pattern' - for an unelected public body - as a character in Joseph Heller's Catch 22 might have said.
The Improvement Service is an unelected public body - set up by COSLA and the Scottish government some years ago - with the aim of helping local councils to improve local services - by adopting best practice and becoming more efficient.
Interestingly the membership of the IS board is shown as follows:
- Pat Watters, Chair, COSLA
- Rory Mair, COSLA
- Colin Mair, Improvement Service
- Gavin Whitefield, SOLACE
- Mary Pitcaithly, SOLACE
- Bernadette Malone, SOLACE
- Tina Yule, SOLACE
- Robert Murray, COSLA
- David O'Neil, COSLA
- Colin Mair is the chief executive of the Improvement Service - brother of Rory Mair, chief executive of COSLA.
- SOLACE stands for the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives - and as far as I know the named representatives on the IS board are all serving council chief executives.
- Pat Watters is President of COSLA and is a senior Labour councillor in South Lanarkshire Council.
- David O'Neil is a senior Labour councillor from North Ayrshire Council.
- Rob Murray is a COSLA Vice President and is a senior SNP councillor from Angus Council.
Interesting 'bomb pattern' - for an unelected public body - as a character in Joseph Heller's Catch 22 might have said.
