Council Appoints Two Key Directors To Lead Integration Project
10th February 2012
The Highland Council has confirmed the appointment of the two directors who will lead the integration of services for children across the authority from April.
Bill Alexander, Director of Social Work, has been appointed as the Director of Health and Social Care and Hugh Fraser, Director of Education Culture and Sport, has been appointed to a position with the same title with extended responsibilities.
The Highland Council and NHS Highland are working on ground-breaking plans for the integration of all health and social care services.
The Leader of Highland Council's Administration, Councillor Michael Foxley, said: "We have made two key appointments today as these directors will take our plans forward, towards implementation in April. Integration of services for children and adults is going to achieve better services and improved outcomes for individuals, families and communities. We will take away the institutional barriers that sometimes get in the way of getting services to people."
Bill Alexander said: "I am delighted to be appointed the Director of Health and Social Care for The Highland Council. This post has key responsibility for valuable services to vulnerable children and adults, and also to help address crime. In particular, I look forward to bringing together staff across services for children into a new integrated service. We have good and improving children's services in Highland, and these new developments will enable us to be more effective in ensuring that children and families get the services they need, when they need them."
Bill has been the Director for Social Work in Highland for just over a year. He was previously Chief Operating Officer, and for ten years he was the Head of Children's Services.
Hugh Fraser has been Director of Education Culture and Sport since April 2007, having previously served with the Council as Head of Support Services. He has 23 years service with the Council.
Hugh said: "Integrated services open up great opportunities to provide a co-ordinated service to children and families. I am delighted to be given the opportunity to lead the Education Culture and Sport Service, whose staff will be key players in providing this improved and extended service."
Related Businesses
Related Articles
As intimated in Highland Council's budget plan, a new senior management structure is to be implemented following approval by Council 14th March. It reconfigures the senior management team into two layers, rather than three and brings Highland Council into line with other benchmarked authorities.
Today, Morrison Construction introduced some of their local apprentices who are working on the UK Governments' Levelling Up Funded refurbishment project at the Northern Meeting Park in Inverness. All these apprentices have been recruited from the Highland area.
The by-election to elect a councillor to represent Ward 19 - Inverness South on The Highland Council has been won by Duncan Cameron McDonald - Independent who was one of the eight candidates who contested the vacancy. Voters in the ward went to the poll yesterday (Thursday 11 April) and the by-election count was held this morning in The Highland Council Headquarters in Inverness.
The Technology Placement Programme offers funding to businesses in the Highland Council area to cover up to 70% of the cost of employing a student or graduate. The Technology Placement Programme offers funding to businesses in the Highland Council area to cover up to 70% of the cost of employing a student or graduate.
Following the success of its Business Digital Grant scheme launched last year, The Highland Council is delighted to announce further funding. This is to help Highland companies access digital support alongside other business growth support.
The Highland Council is delighted to confirm a highly successful second year for Public Service Obligation (PSO) flights between Wick and Aberdeen. The period from April 2023 to March 2024 has seen a substantial increase in passenger numbers, with several months seeing over 1,000 passengers using the service, and overall the service has seen year on year growth of 25%.
Members of Highland Council, who met on Thursday 14 March 2024, approved a corporate Digital Ambition, which has been designed to deliver significant organisational change across Council services, recognising the current priorities within the organisation. The Strategy, which is embedded within the wider Council Delivery Plan, has been developed to focus attention and resources on areas of change which will deliver the greatest benefit to the Council.
The Council remains committed to supporting mentoring in our schools, including the support that is currently delivered through the MCR Pathways programme. Highland Council is currently undertaking a review of Employability Support provided by a number of different council services and how these relate to the work carried out by external partners and in our schools.
Highland Council members have considered and agreed a revised draft Highland Outcome Improvement Plan. The partnership plan has been reviewed and updated by the Community Planning Partnership.
Members at today's (14 March 2024) meeting of The Highland Council agreed the local authority's new draft Community Wealth Building Strategy. They were also asked to note that a period of public engagement on the draft will now begin, with a final strategy returning to full Council for consideration in September.
