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Counselling in schools continues to make positive progress

Argyll and Bute Council has made significant progress in recruiting and delivering a counselling service for children and young people in the area. The council was awarded £286,000 through the Scottish Government’s 10 year Mental Health Strategy to provide the service over the last 12 months, and a further £377,000 has been allocated for each of the next three years.

11 March 2021
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Isle of Bute and Helensburgh and Lomond South by-elections - Safety at polling stations

Polling stations are safe places to vote and while there are options like postal or proxy votes, some people will still prefer to cast their vote in person. People will see some changes at polling stations – all designed to ensure that voters can comply with Covid-19 restrictions like social distancing. There may be separate doors to enter and leave the polling place, and a one-way system marked out to follow once inside.

11 March 2021
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Ensuring young people have a voice in Argyll and Bute

Argyll and Bute Council is committed to ensuring that the rights of children and their families continue to be heard. At a meeting of today’s Community Services Committee, members heard about the work already carried out by the council over the last three years to give children and young people a voice, and its plans to expand this. During the last three years, Argyll and Bute Council has:

11 March 2021
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Celebrating International Women's Day

Today is International Women’s Day and to celebrate the Council’s Chief Executive, Pippa Milne, tells us how it feels to be a woman at the top of local government. How does it feel to be a woman at the top of your industry?

8 March 2021

£10m roads’ programme for Argyll and Bute in 21/22

The Environment, Development and Infrastructure Committee yesterday (4 March) endorsed a £10m roads improvement programme for Argyll and Bute. This sum includes an additional £2.61m, approved in last month’s budget that has still to be allocated to work. A full, updated, programme will be presented to the committee’ next meeting in June.

5 March 2021
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New post to ensure housing is accessible for everyone

The Environment, Development and Infrastructure Committee recommends that the council funds a permanent post that will ensure housing in Argyll and Bute is accessible and adaptable, to meet all needs. The Housing Occupational Therapist post, is funded through the Strategic Housing Fund, and links up the Health and Social Care Partnership and Housing Services. This has been a temporary role for three years and has been successful in meeting key outcomes in the council’s housing strategy and helping appropriate services to work together. Key successes include:

4 March 2021

Argyll and Bute continues to attract film interest

With its stunning scenery from lochs to mountains, coast and islands, Argyll and Bute has built a reputation for offering some of the best scenery in the UK to the film and TV industry. A report to the Environment, Development and Infrastructure (ED&I) Committee on Thursday highlighted how COVID-19 has directly impacted the number and size productions coming into the area.

4 March 2021

£1.686 million helping town centre recovery

Argyll and Bute Council continues to support town centre regeneration by delivering Town Centre Funding from the Scottish Government. The fund worth £1.686 million is helping the local economy recover making it a more attractive places to live, work, visit and invest. A report to the Environment, Development and Infrastructure (ED&I) committee on Thursday highlighted progress to date with 28 projects in total allocated for funding.

4 March 2021

Transforming Argyll and Bute's economy

Transforming Argyll and Bute’s economy continues to be a priority for Argyll and Bute Council to help create vibrant places and communities and attract more people to live and work in the area. A report to the Environment, Development and Infrastructure (ED&I) Committee highlighted the role the Transformation Project and Regeneration Team are playing to secure external funding and help deliver large scale regeneration projects across the area.

4 March 2021

Developing our digital services

Developing innovative digital services and working practices, for the benefit of council employees and customers, is the aim of a strategy agreed at Thursday’s Council meeting. The strategy will shape the work of the council’s ICT (Information Communication and Technology) Services over the period 2021 to 2024. The ICT service was recognised as the number one ranked UK local authority ICT service for 2019/20 (*) Policy Lead for Customer Support Services, Councillor Mary-Jean Devon said:

26 February 2021
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