SCOTLAND'S most senior local government figure has warned councils must be more inventive about the services they can share to make the most of squeezed finances.
SCOTLAND'S most senior local government figure has warned councils must be more inventive about the services they can share to make the most of squeezed finances.
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Brian Currie Political Editor
Pat Watters, the long-serving president of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosla), said demand for services had increased at a time when the amount of money available to councils had fallen.
He said this was particularly down to the growing number of elderly people, and added effort had to be put into better integration of services "to cut out some of the waste and duplication that is there".
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