The Scottish Government has a chance to turn the clock back on 14 years of austerity and rebuild community wealth. But to do so it must invest in local services, end peak fares, deliver free school meals, scrap the small business bonus scheme, and raise revenue from property and wealth taxes.
November 2024
Open letter from Scotland’s largest trade unions, academics, charities and campaign organisations calling on Scotland’s main political party leaders to ‘urgently’ revaluate property across the country as a critical step towards reforming Scotland’s broken system of local property taxation.
April 2024
This report uses three methods to assess the scale of Scottish Council outsourcing. It concludes local government outsourcing is likely to be increasing in real terms and outstripping funding spent on the directly employed workforce.
April 2026
STUC's submission to the Scottish Parliament's Economy Committee's call for views on the Community Wealth Building Bill.
May 2025
In January 2023, the Scottish Government published a consultation seeking views on what is required to accelerate and deepen Community Wealth Building in Scotland, including what should be in a potential Community Wealth Building Bill.
May 2023
