Posted: March 30th, 2010 | Author: DGPPG | Filed under: News
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Stranraer ARC (DG9 7JJ) Report – 20 May 2009
Quality Theme 2: Quality of Environment
Statement 1
We ensure that service users and carers participate in assessing and improving the quality
of the environment within the service.
Service Strengths
See information as at 1.1.
The Disability Discrimination Officer has made further recommendations for access with regard
to the inner front door, an exit
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Posted: March 23rd, 2010 | Author: DGPPG | Filed under: News
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First Stranraer ARC, see article 17-Mar, and now Newton Stewart. We hear that another small seperate meeting with selected carers will take place at the Newton Stewart ARC in April, but other carers are excluded and not welcome. Why? This secrecy and refusal to face and answer simple basic questions continues to undermine trust. Which four ARCs did JA
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Posted: March 22nd, 2010 | Author: DGPPG | Filed under: News
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This reply was sent to Chris Raftery Scottish Government Adult Care and Support 0131 244 5492 email: Chris.Raftery@scotland.gsi.gov.uk It was copied to Audit Scotland and MSPs for this region. You will note the request that they comment to set out their views and position, especially if they feel we are wrong. If so it
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Posted: March 17th, 2010 | Author: DGPPG | Filed under: News
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Attention Stranraer focus group. Following up your message of 1st March is there any more news about the possible meeting at your ARC and the group being set up? Have you seen the various open responses and comments to ‘Galloway Lass’ on this site? Any idea who ‘Galloway Lass’ might be and will she
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Posted: March 3rd, 2010 | Author: DGPPG | Filed under: News
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See reply 22-March and detailed request for clarification and release of all documents including identity of the academic evaluators.
on 3-Mar Chris Raftery wrote as follows: Thank you for your recent e-mail. I appreciate your concerns. I have to reiterate that the closure of the ARCs is not related to the test site activity. If, a
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Posted: March 3rd, 2010 | Author: DGPPG | Filed under: News
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See Dumfries & Galloway Standard Frid 26th and the story of a £2,500 cut to RDA (Riding for the Disabled) at Barend and Nithsdale. This is part of the insidious ARC closure cuts.
For this latest and new cut of £2500 directly affects the intended ARC closure plan. What the public may not appreciate is that
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Posted: March 2nd, 2010 | Author: DGPPG | Filed under: News
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The “uncaring and untrustworthy” (see Galloway News article ) Social Work Director J Alexander plans to hold a meeting at Stranraer ARC. Having refused to meet as a wider group covering all 6 ARCs, he now wishes to ‘divide and rule’, picking off the individual ARCs one by one. No doubt he hopes and expects
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Posted: March 1st, 2010 | Author: DGPPG | Filed under: News
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This was an update to ITV Border News after the report run on 24th Feb. It was for the news desk plus ‘Pam & Ian because since then the Galloway News published a report on Thursday 24/2. Representatives at the FDP Trustees’ meeting on Thurs 18 Feb agreed entirely with those reports and
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Posted: February 26th, 2010 | Author: DGPPG | Filed under: News
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Please would Ronald L Hart who posted a comment on 23 Feb get in touch again, because we are trying to trace all who attended the Easterbrook Hall ‘event’ last November. RLH then wrote as follows:
“I was totally bemused at the incompetence in the presentation at Easterbrook Hall. Judith Proctor is another under achiever
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Posted: February 26th, 2010 | Author: DGPPG | Filed under: News | Tags: accountability, Activity Resource Centres (ARCs), Care Commission complaint, Freedom of Information, Galloway News, ITV Border News, transparency and honesty, UCI, wasting 1.2Million, Wigtownshire pilot
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Read the story. Click here or use the full link below: Galloway News article
This complaint was also reported by ITV Border News on Weds 24th 2010 and has been discussed that day with the Care Commission who are now very concerned that the Council have not kept them fully or properly informed. It appears that
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