ARGYLL’S health and social care board is taking a begging bowl to Holyrood as it faces a £2.4million budget gap this year.
The Health and Social Care Partnership’s (HSCP) most controversial cost-saving proposals, to cut council- run care homes, day care and learning disability centres, were rejected by the Integrated Joint Board (IJB) last month following public outrage.
The IJB has until its meeting on Wednesday May 30 at Kilmory to plan another solution. At a meeting of Argyll and Bute Council on April 26, members agreed to approach the Scottish Government for extra funding.