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Transport Minister rolls back First Minister’s commitment to not unbundling...
Public anxiety on the west coast of Scotland has been growing over the Scottish Government’s intentions for the delivery of the Clyde and Hebridean Ferry Services.These are the ‘lifeline services’,...
View ArticleThe West Coast Rail tender foul-up cannot have been ‘a mistake’
[5th October update below] The UK Government’s ‘explanation’ for why it has found it imperative to retire the entire tendering and contracting process for the West Coast rail franchise utterly lacks...
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This is a note to draw attention to two articles which have had additional material added to them.The first is Elderly Care-at-Home: how far have officers kept councillors in the loop? – dealing with...
View ArticleThe public purse and the ‘Yes’ campaign budget
Recent information on the Scottish Government’s diversion of significant numbers of civil servants to producing ‘work packages’ on different aspects of the independence proposition was already...
View ArticleInstitute of Fiscal Studies economist looks at fiscal context of independent...
The Deputy Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies [IFS], Carl Emmerson, presented a perspective - Scottish independence: the fiscal context – to an Economic and Social Research Council [ESRC]...
View ArticlePoor communications from Council in handover to private operator of island...
Residents of the slate islands of Easdale and Luing, south of Oban and of Lismore to the north, spent a couple of days in alarm this week concerned about a well found local rumour that the Council had...
View ArticleMoD admits Tornado collision warning system available from 2008 is not installed
In response to Parliamentary questions from SNP MP for Moray, Angus Robertson, the Ministry of Defence [MoD] has admitted that a commercial collision warning system had been identified as appropriate...
View ArticleArgyll & Bute Alcohol and Drugs Partnership: addicted to abuse
On the evidence below – For Argyll is calling for an urgent independent and independently appointed, external investigation of what appear to be serious problems at Argyll & Bute’s Alcohol and...
View ArticleAlcohol & Drugs Partnership latest: was bidder groomed to win contract?
In the first article we published a week ago on Argyll & Bute’s dysfunctional Alcohol & Drugs Partnership [ADP], we drew attention to serious problems with procurement, instancing two recent...
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The real ‘relationship difficulties’ at the heart of Argyll’s dysfunctional...
At every point where anyone has raised the issue of the continuing dysfunctionality of Argyll and Bute’s Alcohol and Drugs Partnership [ADP], funded by the Scottish Government to the tune of £1.2...
View ArticleCouncil lawyers now engaged in ADP mess
The latest on the chaotic affairs of Argyll and Bute’s Alcohol and Drugs Partnership [ADP] comes via unhappy sources in Argyll and Bute Council.Some staff have been taken off all other work, with all...
View ArticleIs Audit Scotland taking the low road on investigating Argyll’s ADP?
Taking the line of least resistance, Audit Scotland simultaneously gives hope and takes it from many of those local service providers abused and the vulnerable service users under-served by Argyll and...
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MV Loch Seaforth for Stornoway-Ullapool: a tale of public sector ‘management’
This is a tale of the Scottish Government, Transport Scotland, CMAL [Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited], the money markets, Stornoway Harbour, Ullapool Harbour, the Flensburger shipyard in Germany,...
View ArticleAlcohol & Drugs Partnership latest: insiders keep jobs and awkward squad lose...
Argyll and Bute Alcohol and Drugs Partnership [ADP] decided, in the Autumn of 2014 – following a procurement process raising multiple questions of propriety – to award a contract to provide community...
View ArticleRussell calls for restitution of island air services suspended in...
Michael Russell, MSP for Argyll & Bute, has demanded that Argyll & Bute Council secure the immediate restoration of lifeline air services to Coll, Tiree and Colonsay, which are to be suspended...
View ArticleScottish Government in the dock on Shetland Times’ revelations on 2012...
Every one is well aware that there was dirty work at the crossroads, as they say, on Transport Scotland’s 2012 award of the contract to provide ferry services to the Northern Isles.With four finalists...
View ArticleTransport Scotland’s position on the 2012 Northern Isles Ferry services...
This afternoon, 6th May, Transport Scotland sent For Argyll, voluntarily, the following position statement on the 2012 award of the Northern Isles Ferry Services contract, an issue on which, as we...
View ArticleJackie Baillie says Council must learn lessons after damning Audit Scotland...
Argyll and Bute Council and its partners must learn lessons from a damning report on the commissioning of services for people in Helensburgh and Lomond suffering from alcohol and drug addictions, local...
View ArticleWeak, nervous and unsearching: Audit Scotland report into Argyll and Bute...
As reported here and with responses to it from leading local MSPs, Michael Russell and Jackie Baillie, made public here immediately, this report was published a couple of weeks ago. For Argyll’s...
View ArticleHousing Services issues: specific failures of Audit Scotland report on Argyll...
Issues around the provision of Housing Services in this contract are integral to judgments on the integrity of the processes of the relationships between the Invitation to Tender, the contracted...
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