Scotland's Standards Commission - Savaged By A Dead Sheep?

Scotland's Auditor General says the commissioner responsible for overseeing standards in public life in Scotland has been doing a really poor job and that the organisation's many failings include:

  • an absence of openness and transparency 
  • a breakdown in key relationships with stakeholders and within its own office 
  • no effective scrutiny or challenge which might have flagged up issues earlier 

The Commissioner's Office has accepted the auditor's 22 recommendations for improvement, without quibble, which is encouraging. 

Because up till now it sounds as if an investigation by the Commission was about as frightening as being savaged by a dead sheep.

Who knows, if the Standards Commission is going to get its act together, maybe that's where I'll pursue the issue of the SNP 'gaming the system' on councillors' pay in the New Year!

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