Lomond Councillor Martin Rooney has written to West Dunbartonshire Council Chief Executive, Joyce White and the Councils Head of Legal, Democratic and Regulatory Services, Mr Andrew Fraser, regarding the Council’s recent advert for Modern Apprenticeship vacancies. The Council has advertised to recruit a number of Modern Apprentices but has set an age limit of 16 [...]

West Dunbartonshire Constituency Labour Party has announced its candidates for the Council Elections on 3rd May. In 2007 the Labour Party returned the biggest number of Councillors and got the biggest share of the vote but did not have sufficient support to form the administration.  Labour is putting forward a strong team with a broad [...]

At the Council meeting on 29th February, following a proposal from Councillor Martin Rooney it was agreed that a briefing note be issued to all elected members to keep Councillors up to date with our ongoing engagement with the Care Inspectorate in implementing action plans that had been developed as a result of the recent [...]

The latest version of the Councils Social & Economic Profile showed that the number of recorded crimes increased by 10%, to 13,546. In 2009 the total number of recorded offences was 12,242. The three largest number of crimes committed were: (i) ‘Other’ driving offences with 1,729 offences recorded; (ii) Breach of the Peace 1,678 offences [...]

At the Council meeting on 29th February, Councillors were asked to note the Single Outcome Agreement 2009 – 2011, ‘Final Progress Report’. The Single Outcome Agreement (SOA) is a strategic agreement between the Scottish Government & West Dunbartonshire Community Planning Partnership (CPP). The CPP comprises strategic partners such as the Council; Greater Glasgow & Clyde [...]

At a meeting of West Dunbartonshire Council elected members unanimously agreed the selection of Wellspring as the Private Sector Development Partner (PSDP). Wellspring is itself a partnership of three companies namely (i) Community Solutions Investment Partners Ltd; (ii) Morgan Sindall Group PLC; and (iii) Apollo Capital Projects Ltd. The PSDP has appropriate expertise for progressing [...]

At a meeting of West Dunbartonshire’s Community Participation Committee on Wednesday 22nd February, 2012; Councillors and community representatives received a presentation on the UK Government’s Welfare Reform Programme. Vincent Gardiner, Client & Support Manager, reported that although the Welfare Reform Bill is still going through Parliament a number of reforms have already been initiated. At [...]

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The Scottish government has made an active choice to starve Council services of vital funding for services. Although the Scottish government received a cut in their budget from the UK government, of 2.2%, they have chosen to pass more than doubled the UK cut to local government. The SNP cut to local authorities is -5.7%, [...]

 
At the Council meeting on 28 April 2010, elected members agreed to take up the option from the Scottish Government to borrow £4.413m to help with the costs of Single Status and Equal Pay. The monies were placed in the ‘Modernisation Fund’ and were to be used to for organisational and service delivery challenges facing the [...]

The Corporate Management Team (CMT) had made a number of recommendations totalling £625,000 to cover inadequate budgets such as Winter Maintenance Overtime and Learning Disability Work Connect Staffing. The Labour Group budget took full account of the CMT recommendations and included these in the budget proposals. However, the SNP Administration ignored the CMT recommendations.
 
Labours Budget [...]