On October 14th 2025 the Scottish Government held what they billed as a “Public Sector Reform Operational Summit” . The aim was to develop plans to fulfil the Scottish Government’s commitment to cut spending and jobs in public services. The invitees to the summit included virtually every Chief Executive in Scotland’s public sector.
Amongst the topics discussed were how to centralise and automate services and using severance schemes to help build an “agile” public sector.