Appendix 3a and 3b M3 Savings
Argyll and Bute Council · 18 August 2026
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# Appendix 3a - Fully Complete Savings Budget Ref. Savings Description £' 000 Social Work / Care 2526-16 Reduced Agency Costs - (2025/26 Recovery Plan) 45 2526-14 Community Transport Helensburgh (2025/26 Recovery Plan) 25 2627-8 Community Transport Helensburgh (Full year impact) 51 2627-1 2627 -1 Social Work Staffing Children Families and Justice (post held vacant) 113 2627-2 2627 -2 Social Work Staffing Children Older Adults (post held vacant) 113 2627-3 2627 -3 Social Work Staffing PD/LD/MH (post removed from establishment) 90 2627-5 2627 -5 Additional ADP Funding to support services 32 2627-6 Mobile team contract saving 450 2627-7 Inflation uplifts removed from contracts 41 2627-9 Scottish Care 44 2627-10 Carers Centres contract savings 165 2627-11 Care & Repair contract reduction 25 2627-12 Alzheimers Scotland contract saving 118 2627-15 Increase in Fees and Charges to clients & other residential care income 180 2327-17 Threshold of Care - full year impact 500 2627-13 Mitigation Funding -180 SERVICE TOTAL 1,812 Health AB2021-64 Dunoon Forensic Medical Examiner Contract 50 AB2122-33 Labs - managed service contract 40 AB2223-9 Forensic Service Contracts 20 AB2627-01 Prescribing - Dapagliflozin 250 AB2627-03 Budget Reserves - slippage 250 AB2627-07 Energy usage reductions 100 AB2627-09 Additional recharge income 40 AB2627-15 Cowal OOH FME 90 SERVICE TOTAL 840 Total Fully Complete 2,652
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Appendix 3b - LIVE SAVINGS PROGRAMME Target Declared Remaining RISK NOTES Ref. Savings Description £' 000 £' 000 £' 000 Social Work 2324-14 Reduce external placement budget by one (C&F) 160 160 No expectation this will be achieved at present 2526-8 Additional Income from Adoptions (25/26 Recovery Plan) 100 100 Not deliverable due to court ruling - requires to be offset within service budgets 2526-13 Day Services Review 200 200 Review to report autumn 2026 and make recommendations 2627-4 Lorne Campbell Court 200 200 Service change progressing 2627-16 New Charge for Responder Service 160 160 Project plan in place - charging to commence winter 2026. SERVICE TOTAL 820 820 Health AB2021-4a/b Admin & Clerical 120 120 Vacancy monitoring group to look to hold posts until saving achieved AB2021-20 Centralised booking of medical records - reduction in admin costs 97 97 as above AB2122-66 Savings from building rationalisation 63 63 Was dependent upon cancelled Dunoon project, more co-location now potential option AB2223-5 Estates Staffing Structure 129 129 NHSH now seeking to progress AB2324-26 Childrens & Families Staffing and service re-modelling 250 250 has been delivered non-recurring from vacancy savings in recent years AB2627-02 Review of External Healthcare Referrals 300 100 200 AB2627-05 Review of Contracts 7 7 AB2627-06 Prescribing Savings - pricing and switches 200 59 141 AB2627-08 Care & Repair Helensburgh addnl contract 36 36 AB2627-11 Non pay budgets - service targets 363 15 348 AB2627-12 3% Reduction on SLA GG&C 2,159 2,159 Work on-going GG&C aware of target which has been set nationally SERVICE TOTAL 3,724 174 3,550 4,544 174 4,370 200 59 141 1,508 115 1,393 2,836 0 2,836