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The Scottish Government provides a range of training for its officials depending on their previous knowledge and experience and reflecting the specific requirements of their role.
As the commissioner indicated, where issues arise in rounds in which we do not provide direct oversight, officials will pick up the phone, call our office and say, “There’s been an instance of maladministration.
How do we ensure that councillors are suitably equipped to ask pertinent questions of officials so that they know whether they are getting the best advice and information that is relevant to the decisions that they are making?
I readily concede that that question is perhaps more for officials than for you, cabinet secretary but, nonetheless, the issue causes those organisations concern.