The Scottish Government have published their Public Service Reform Strategy. It outlines their intention to reduce the size of the public sector workforce through a range of measures including deployment of automation and outsourcing to the third sector.
The Scottish Government has developing financial problems and the Public Service Reform Strategy is part of it’s proposed remedy. Further detail on these can be found in the Medium-Term Financial Strategy and Fiscal Sustainability Delivery Plan
This briefing looks at the main proposals in the document and how they are likely to impact on UNISON members and branches.