Council and Housing Association to work together to try to save sheltered housing wardenships

There has been a development since our recent news item on the social housing situation in Argyll. Representatives of Argyll and Bute Council and of Argyll Community Housing Assciation (ACHA) have met to discuss the crisis caused by the withdrawal of ACHA’a annual grant of £274,000 from the Council’s Supporting People budget which had been cut by Government. The grant had paid for the salaries of, among others, the sheltered housing wardens. The two bodies have now committed themselves to trying to retain the sheltered housing service and to work together to raise funds to make this possible. Councillor Donald McIntosh said: ‘We need to help ACHA look for funding and Argyll and Bute Council has already been in discussion with the Scottish Government. The Council does not have the money but we are willing to work with ACHA and do what we can to help.’