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Alzheimer Scotland predicts Argyll sufferers to double in 20 years
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Gary Mulvaney – no standard Tory
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ForArgyll month-on-month traffic growth continues
We’ve just had our monthly traffic stats – always an occasion for excitement. The news is that ForArgyll’s growth performance continues with a 16.17% rise in daily unique visitors between January and February 2009 – February’s daily average was recorded at 1013.
Hits can be an unreliable measure of performance – because hits are the number of file calls and some pages have more than a hundred per page impression. But people do use hits as some sort of benchmark – which is why we published our hits for the month of January – which were 1,043,011.
Council defends against criticism by National Autistic Society report
A report – commissioned and published by the National Autistic Society (NAS) – has criticised Argyll and Bute and Dumfries and Galloway councils. They have been identified as the only two of Scotland’s thirty two councils that are failing to show evidence of improvement in their care for adults suffering from autism.
The report has been concerned with two key points:
- good statistical records – the existence of a secure figure for the number of adults with autism in their areas
- the existence of a named person in charge of meeting their local needs in autism care
Argyll and Bute Council has given For Argyll a statement in its defence which says: ‘Argyll and Bute Council is committed to providing high quality services including those to people with Autism.
‘The learning disability service is currently being reviewed and as part of this review the Council will look at what data we hold in relation to service users with Autism.
‘Contrary to claims in the report, Argyll and Bute Council do have a named contact with responsibility for Autism and the National Autistic Society Scotland were made aware of this in early November, well in advance of publication’.
This unequivocal fact would seem to suggest that there are flaws in the security of the conclusions of the NAS report.