Parliament Workbench

Petition · PE01606 · Session 4

Forcing Scottish councils to collaborate regionally on schools and roads

Closed Submitted 18 Mar 2016 People & Communities
Signatures
0
25 online signatures with a country
Comments
1
Considered
2 meetings
in the Official Report

What it asks

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to use its position in negotiations to set local authority budgets to ensure local authorities work together on a regional basis to provide education and transport services on a shared basis. Efficiencies could lead to staff being redeployed out of the back office and into front line services.

What the petitioner did first

I have written to Ken MacIntosh MSP, Sarah Boyack MSP, Marco Biagi MSP, Cameron Buchanan MSP; Willie Rennie MSP and Kezia Dugdale MSP asking for action on Councils sharing services, to try and get it into the manifesto of every major Scottish political party- with no success.
I also published two articles in December 2015- in the Edinburgh Evening News
- "Edinburgh Council needs fresh ideas not cuts" and in the Scotsman
- "Shared Services are way forward for councils".

Where it was considered

Official Report
  1. 15 Sep 2016
    Public Petitions Committee
    New Petitions
    1 mention
  2. 24 Nov 2016
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention

Signatures by country

25 online signatures
  1. Not given22 88%
  2. Scotland3 12%

Comments

1 comment, oldest first
  1. Peter Gregson 22 Mar 2016
    Local Government needs fixing. Please sign