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Craigmillar’s social exclusion, Again!

By The Basa ⋅ February 23, 2006 ⋅

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It would seem that EU, Council and Scottish Executive funded and Craigmillar based Capacity Building Project which are now picking and choosing who gets on their courses - they make it difficult for anyone in employment to attend their latest one and if they don’t like you, or you have asked questions about how they go about their business, you are denied a place on the course.

It would seem that a highly respected local businesman who has questioned the way they handle public money and questioned the project on various matters registered for a hastily assembled course and got the following letter from the person in charge of Capacity Building Project:

Dear XXXXX

I write in regard to your request to attend the learning programme ‘Understanding Community Regeneration’ facilitated by the CBP.

Unfortunately we will not offer you a place on the course. Your behaviour over recent months has given us cause for alarm and you have proved time after time that you can not conduct yourself in an appropriate manner.

Yours sincerely

David Walker Project Co-ordinator.

(Spelling and Grammer errors not down to EdSucks!)

We understand that a letter has been returned to Mr. Walker who has in the past been accused of making racist comments in Craigmillar with copies to Various MSPs, MEPs and Scottish Executive officials. We take it that the ‘cabal’ who run the poverty industry in Craigmillar prefer the citizens in their area to shut the hell up and take what they give them. So that’s their “understanding [of] kommunity regeneration”

With the Council looking after the distribution of the cash to projects like this, it is now time for them to intervene in the runnings of the Craigmillar ‘Cabal’ and have a public enquiry. They must ensure that any enquiry is comprehensive, independent, robust, transparent and far-reaching enough to overcome any ‘vested interests’. Further, in reporting its findings to appropriate authorities, it should aim to restore public confidence, not merely locally but to allay what could become a national scandal.

We are starting a poll on this post. You will find it in the top right part of the screen. The question today is “Should there be a public enquiry in Craigmillar.”

As this is the first of what looks like many posts about the Capacity Building Project, we have created a category for them.