#challengepoverty week is a great excuse to re-share the brilliance of Braes High School pupils video Improvement Service COSLA The Poverty Alliance

Demographic challenges are not unique to Scotland, and there are many countries across the world where ageing and population change has happened much more rapidly. Our Navigating Demographic Change report explores some international examples: improvementservice.org.uk/__data/assets/…

Have a 👀 at what we’ve been up to this month & events coming up 👇

🆕The Improvement Service has been shortlisted for a Local Area R&I Assoc award for Best Use of Data for our work with @lovewestlothian to better understand child poverty and identify unmet need in the West Lothian area. improvementservice.org.uk/news/november-…

Welcome to parentsportal.scot, Angus Council! 20 local authorities are now using parentsportal.scot to create a digital relationship between parents/carers and schools. x.com/improvserv/sta…

We would like to reassure our customers that none of our farming partners, who are also family run farms, use the additive Bovaer. As fifth generation farmers, and a third generation family dairy, we’re committed to producing high-quality, naturally delicious dairy products.

Our very own Shelley Heckman and Paul Davidson, iStandUK are joined by Hanna McCulloch, Improvement Service to share an overview of SAVVI, specifically focusing on the Scottish Rural Child Poverty project #iNetwork2024

⏰Still time to complete the National Planning Improvement Survey which closes on 8th December. Anyone who has interacted with a #planning authority in the last year can complete the survey - find out more in the new blog from Susan Rintoul. improvementservice.org.uk/insights/2024/…

⏰Still time to sign up for the free Public Service Improvement Framework (PSIF) Learning Event. Hear from Audit Scotland, The City of Edinburgh Council and Clackmannanshire Council about their PSIF work in 2024. To join the event on 5th December, email [email protected]

This Thursday join Children's Hospices Across Scotland @RamiOkasha Together 🧡 Tam Baillie Improvement Service Rebecca Spillane Aberlour Children's Charity Clan Childlaw Place2Be Scotland to examine your compliance with #UNCRC law in Scotland. Info: ow.ly/2r7L50UhwRy Date: 5 Dec 2024 Cost: £149, get 3 for 2 #ChildrensRight

Season's Greetings and a Happy New Year from everyone at the Improvement Service🎄 We look forward to working wth you all in 2025!

⏰Still time to sign up for our next #ChildrensRights Conversations event focusing on #Homelessness in Scotland. We will be joined by Homeless Network Scotland Cyrenians and Shelter Scotland 📅Wed 5th February 🕐10am - 11:30am 📍MS Teams Sign up here: ow.ly/eVaQ50UIlSI

The Improvement Service is going to be at the Holyrood Connect Public Sector Data Summit on 13 March. We look forward to seeing you there for conversations about our work developing citizen and data services #ConnectDataSummit improvementservice.org.uk/products-and-s…

Congratulations Irene Beautyman. Very well deserved 👏👏

Delighted for our Digital Public Services team. A great achievement & thanks to our colleagues in Tata Consultancy Services

Find out how Argyll and Bute Council worked with Clare Mills  to create an illustrated UNCRC plan that's more accessible to everyone. It’s one of our #UNCRC case studies showing councils putting children’s rights at the heart of policy and practice. ow.ly/9qLz50VuCpR

Want to keep up to date with public information notices in your area? Tellmescotland, Scotland’s national public notice portal, is now supported by mygovscot myaccount and users can sign up to get notifications of important notices from your council. tellmescotland.gov.uk/home/

ICYMI: We've published the results of our first National Customer & Stakeholder Survey for all planning authorities. In this blog, Craig McLaren, National Planning Improvement Champion, discusses how the findings are helping improve customer care. ow.ly/QaO850Vvx6h

👏Great to see My Diabetes My Way hit this milestone, and proud to be involved in its success. (It's one of 41 organisations using mygovscot myaccount for authentication and sign-in.)

BOVAER? NOT HERE Bovaer has reared it's head again - as farmers across Denmark are speaking out. Over there, they've been forced to use it in non-organic milk in the country as climate changes measures. But Cows are going off feed. Fertility is dropping. Animals are