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Scotland Performs goes live
02/06/2008
A new website that will enable the people of Scotland to see - at-a-glance - how Scotland is performing was launched today.
The Scotland Performs website will allow people to find out whether the Scottish nation is becoming wealthier, safer, healthier, greener and smarter.
Visitors to the Scotland Performs website will be presented with highly visual and easy to understand pages. They will have quick access to information about the quality of life in Scotland, and where thing are getting better and where things are getting worse.
Finance Secretary John Swinney said:
"Scotland Performs is about responsibility and accountability.
"By making this information easy to access, and by showing exactly whether we as a country are doing well or need to do more, everyone in Scotland will have the ability to judge for themselves how Scotland is performing.
"This website is about how all of Scotland is performing. For many of the progress measures responsibility for success is shared between the Scottish Government and partners in local government, with our universities, the business community and in many cases with individual Scots. Decisions we all take will determine whether we are becoming the more successful nation we all seek.
"I know that Scotland will do best when all of Scotland is working together, when our efforts are all pointed in the same direction and when we have total confidence in our ability to succeed.
"The Scottish Government has no doubt we can be a richer country and a richer society. Scotland Performs is an important part of our new approach, based on a distinct, and emerging Scotland-wide social partnership.
"It is about removing barriers between government and the people, and it recognises the fundamental truth that each and every person in this nation has a stake, a part to play, in growing Scottish success."
Scotland Performs is based on the Virginia Model, a strategic planning and communications tool used in the State of Virginia, USA.
Scotland Performs will report publicly on progress towards the Purpose, Purpose targets, Outcomes and Indicators published as part of the National Performance Framework in the Spending Review.
Scotland Performs will be updated whenever relevant new statistical information is available.