CMAL under scrutiny in increasing dissatisfaction with maritime asset management
As ferry users and the general public begin to understand exactly how the Clyde and Hebridean Ferry Services are delivered and who is responsible for what, there is growing concern and discontent with...
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 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 ArticleHigh level contradictions in story of contract variation in chaotic Alcohol &...
[Updated below, 12th March] Not very long ago, a senior council source informed other high level members of the Argyll & Bute Alcohol & Drugs Partnership [ADP] that an immediate variation of...
View ArticleNew information dictates new start for the ADP addiction services contract
In June 2014, Argyll and Bute Council’s procurement team issued an Invitation To Tender [ITT] to provide Argyll and Bute-wide community addiction recovery services.The deadline for the submission of...
View ArticleOperations Director alleged to have materially misled Community Health...
[Updated: 21.30] At the meeting of the Argyll and Bute Community Health Partnership [CHP] on 18th February 2015, Christina West, the current Chair of the subsidiary Alcohol and Drugs Partnership [ADP]...
View ArticleADP: new community rehabilitation services contractor not registered to...
The new contractor solely responsible now for the provision of community rehabilitation addiction services across Argyll and Bute is not registered with the Care Inspectorate to supply any services of...
View ArticleADP: new major commissioning issues for Audit Scotland investigation
Our two local MSPs, MIchael Russell and Jackie Baillie, have together convinced Audit Scotland of the need, for a start, to investigate the process by which the Argyll and Bute Alcohol and Drugs...
View ArticleWhere is there reason for 3rd Sector partners to trust the Alcohol & Drugs...
There has just been yet another systemically critical report on Argyll & Bute’s Alcohol & Drugs Partnership [ADP]from a commissioned consultant, Bill Breckenridge. He was brought in to...
View ArticleADP: Professor McKeganey’s 2011 report said it all – and highlighted still...
Back in 2011, a Needs Assessment report was commissioned by the ADP [Argyll and Bute Alcohol and Drugs Partnership] from Professor Neil McKeganey, head of Glasgow University’s Misuse of Drugs...
View ArticleFormal complaint to ADP Chair from 3rd Sector Forum AGM – and aftermath
On 31st December 2014, following the 15th December 3rd Sector Forum AGM of local addiction recovery service providers across Argyll and Bute, the Forum’s Vice Chair delivered a formal complaint from...
View ArticleAudit Scotland tells MSPs it WILL investigate Argyll& Bute Alcohol & Drugs...
[Updated below 20.50] Following her request to Audit Scotland to investigate Argyll and Bute’s Alcohol and Drugs partnership [ADP] – which was supported by her fellow local MSP, Michael Russell,...
View ArticleWhat happens to addiction services across Argyll and Bute on 1st February?
As of 7th January, Addaction, the incoming contractor responsible singly for supplying addiction services across Argyll and Bute, had not registered with the Care Commission to deliver these services...
View ArticleConsultants recommend sweeping changes as ADP descends into greater chaos
In a continuing crisis of poor practice, management and integrity, Argyll & Bute’s Alcohol & Drugs Partnership [ADP] has managed to breach compliance with some important requirements.These...
View ArticleMore reason to question the integrity of the ADP Addaction contract and now...
This one was always going to run and run – because it has been obvious from the start that the management of the Scottish Government funded Argyll and Bute Alcohol and Drugs Partnership [ADP] is out of...
View ArticleRussell asks Audit Scotland to go for wide-ranging review of ADP
Local MSP, Michael Russell, saying that the case is now ‘overwhelming’ for an external examination of Argyll and Bute’s Alcohol & Drugs Partnership, has now urged Audit Scotland to go beyond a...
View ArticleADP update: the Kaleidoscope-Addaction staffing relationship
For Argyll has published the detail of a behind-the-scenes arrangement that saw Kaleidoscope, Cowal’s 3rd Sector local provider of addiction services, seal a deal with the external winner of the...
View ArticleAudit Scotland will need a machete to cut through the ADP tender jungle
On 5th December 2014m For Argyll published an article, Alcohol & Drugs Partnership latest – was bidder groomed to win contract?.In this, we showed reason for concern as to whether the winner of the...
View ArticleMajor ADP row as new contractor reneges on assurances on staff retention
Frank and angry exchanges we have seen today, 21st December, reveal a new row brewing in the wake of the Alcohol and Drugs Partnership’s award to Addaction, a company new to Argyll, of a contract to...
View ArticleCan anything address the disease in Argyll and Bute Council?
In a week which has seen two serious failures of acceptable practice at Argyll and Bute Council, each involving betrayals of good faith, the question begging for an answer is: ‘Can anything be done to...
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