A busy afternoon

After spending the morning at work I came down to Port Glasgow in the early afternoon to attend a meeting with senior staff of Community Renewal at their base in Moss Road to discuss their concerns over a recommendation from officers of the Inverclyde Alliance that their funding should cease from 31 March 2010. The meeting was useful and should assist the Inverclyde Alliance Board, which I chair, to come to a decision on this matter at a special meeting within the next few weeks.

Later in the afternoon I attended a meeting of the Council's Health & Social Care Committee. The meeting lasted for two hours with a number of important reports being considered by Elected Members. I was particularly pleased that the Committee approved proposals to replace the Council's three children's residential units with three smaller more homely units.