Rennie responds to Accounts Commission report on councils

Responding to the report by the Accounts Commission, which states that “radical change is needed across Scotland’s councils” and calls on the Scottish Government “to urgently finalise” a deal for local government which has been “long overdue,” Scottish Liberal Democrat communities and economy spokesperson Willie Rennie MSP said:  

“Local government sits right at the bottom of the list for the SNP-Green Government, and those who bear the brunt are the ones already struggling to make ends meet.  

“When local services are cut, people wait longer for care services, children don’t get the support they need and cars get damaged by ever-larger potholes.

“Scottish Liberal Democrats want to see that tide of failure reversed. The government must kickstart that by scrapping its planned takeover of social care and finally giving councils the help they’re crying out for.”