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 [...]

West Dunbartonshire Council will hold a series of public meetings to give members of the public the opportunity to review the Council’s budget proposals and suggest savings options.  The Budget included spending £2.5 million of reserves on a plan for a one year job creation project. The primary focus of the Job Creation project will be [...]

A petition has calling for SNP Councillor Ronnie McColl to resign from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board following his support for the Cabinet Secretary’s decision to permanently close the Christie Ward. The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, Nicola Sturgeon, gave approval to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s plan to permanently close the [...]

Background: Within West Dunbartonshire there are a range of Modern Apprenticeship providers each who have an agreed contract with Scottish Enterprise, via Skills Development Scotland (SDS), to deliver an agreed number of Modern Apprenticeships (MA’s). This briefing focuses on the delivery of the Modern Apprenticeship programme by the Employability Service of West Dunbartonshire Council and [...]

Social Media Education
The SNP stock transfer process aims to transfer 4,453 Council Houses to Housing Associations in an attempt to achieve debt write off and to meet the Scottish Housing Quality Standard by 2015. On Friday 11 November 2011, it was confirmed that two of the Housing Associations had withdrawn from the SNP Partial Stock [...]

Labour’s five-point plan for jobs and growth 
1. 100,000 jobs for young people
2. Bring forward investment projects like new school buildings
3. Temporarily reverse the VAT rise – a £450 boost for families with children
4. Cut VAT on home improvements to 5% for a year
5. A tax break for every small firm which takes on extra workers
Labour’s [...]

Good Will Hunting Screenplay
Local residents in Levenvale have raised concerns about the removal of the 215A bus service that goes to ASDA in Dumbarton. Strathclyde Partnership for Transport has confirmed that the service 215A will cease to operate on 10 October 2011. The bus service 215A ran every 30 minutes during Monday – Friday daytime [...]

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Leven Councillor John Millar joined members of the Vale of Leven Autism Forum at their meeting in Sandra’s Cafe in Alexandria on Thursday 30th June. The forum which covers the Alexandria and Dumbarton area has only been going for a matter of weeks but is planning a number of events to support their [...]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
West Dunbartonshire Council recently agreed the HRA Capital Programme for 2011/12 which includes a programme of investments based on the Councils plans to achieve the Scottish Housing Quality Standard (SHQS) by 2015. The SHQS was introduced by the previous Labour led Scottish Executive in order to drive forward improvements for tenants. Although the 2010/11 HRA [...]

West Dunbartonshire Council has agreed to set up an Absence Working Group to better understand the Councils absence profile; the impact of absences on the delivery of Council services; and to develop a range of practical interventions to target reductions in absence levels. The member officer Working Group is cross party and is chaired by [...]