The blame game, by Arthur Midwinter

The blame game, by Arthur Midwinter (PF 27/10/06)

Criticism of Audit Scotland’s approach to performance reporting. Difficulty in defining outcome indicators and linking to budgets – too many outside influences. Hard to link budgets to plans, as in practice budgets are incremental. Too much emphasis on systems and processes. Method of calculation excludes many measures and causes underestimation of the scale of improvement in Scottish LAs.