Aberdeen City Council’s chief executive has insisted that all of the local authority’s arm’s length bodies will break even by the end of the financial year.
But Angela Scott said she could not divulge the sums involved for Bon Accord Care and other organisations, as the matters were “commercially sensitive”.
Mrs Scott was responding to a series of written questions from SNP councillors Graham Dickson and Gil Samarai on the eve of a full council meeting today.
She said: “As the council has not yet set its budget for 2015-16, the planned amount has not yet been decided.
“Officers are in discussions with all arm’s length organisations with regard to their funding requirements and the results of these discussions will go through the council’s budget process.
“The matters being discussed with the arm’s length organisations are commercially sensitive and the likely amount of funding.
“Council funding to the organisations cannot be disclosed at this stage but will be shown as part of the 2015-16 budget.”
Mrs Scott also tackled the questions related to the standard of care, after the SNP councillors said staff at Bon Accord had reported the grading had dropped from an A to a C.
She said: “With regard to care grades, Bon Accord Care reports that grouped registrations of services presented a significant risk to the company and as a result services are now individually registered.
“Not all services have as yet been inspected during the period since Bon Accord Care went live, but new inspectors and inspection methodologies are impacting on previous gradings.”