Making sure children and young people have the best start in life and helping them to achieve success in life are key priorities for Argyll and Bute Council. Supporting mental health and wellbeing is important to this success. To make support easy and more accessible, the Council, working with Argyll and Bute Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) is now offering a free new online mental health and wellbeing platform available to all 10-18 year olds.

Argyll and Bute Council is due to start work on the next stage of the Rosneath Active Travel Route, which will see a path being created from Argyll Road to Clachan Burn, enabling people to walk, cycle, and wheel between the two locations.

Argyll and Bute Council has become the first local authority in Scotland to launch an area-wide mobile coverage survey.

Community feedback has been key in considering potential sites for a new school campus on Mull and councillors are expected to decide on a preferred site in the coming months.

The team at Cardross Crematorium is providing “an excellent service to the local community and beyond”, following a recent inspection.

The £100,000 upgrade of Tarbert play park has completed ahead of schedule and a range of new out-door equipment is ready for the children and young people of the village to enjoy.

Putting children’s rights at the heart of school life, policy and decision-making has led Argyll and Bute Council to be one of only three local authorities in Scotland to achieve one hundred percent of its Primary and Secondary Schools registered for UNICEF UK’s Rights Respecting Schools Award.

The council would like to thank everyone who gave views that will help develop a draft visitor levy scheme for Argyll and Bute which, if approved for consultation by Council in December, will go out for public consultation in January 2025.

Argyll and Bute Council has welcomed today’s news that it will receive up to £20 million of capital funding from the UK Government for local growth projects in the area.

A new fully-accessible, fuel-efficient, Argyll and Bute Council bus is taking on a route in Campbeltown to help travellers get to where they need to be.