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As John Swinney said, the Accounts Commission announced last week that it will hold a public hearing to examine more closely how Aberdeen City Council has implemented best value and community planning in the past four years.
We believe that that approach gives councils and their partners the flexibility to use resources in the best possible way to secure the best possible outcomes.
Back then, we still had enough shipyards to go round. The housing was not in the best condition, though, and we were moved to a four-in-a-block in Knightswood.
We also said that Audit Scotland could check whether that had been done as part of its best-value audits. We also recommended that, if local authorities were not already doing so, they should carry out annual equal pay audits.
In the long term, that may offer the best way of detecting people who are impaired by the wide—and possibly widening—range of drugs that are constantly coming into use.