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Martin Ford 13 April 2026

Council receives first record-keeping watchdog warning

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Perth and Kinross Council HQ. © Leticia Vallina / Shutterstock.com.

A watchdog has intervened after Perth and Kinross Council was found to have abolished a director-level post ‘without a single record being kept'.

It has resulted in the Scottish Information Commissioner issuing the first-ever practice recommendation to a Scottish public authority for ‘poor record keeping'.

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