Edinburgh Sucks! | Low four figures

Children & Families

Low four figures – MY ARSE

By The Basa ⋅ May 22, 2006 ⋅

First the quote from the Evening News story:

THE sacked education chief blamed for jeopardising the Â£550 million PPP new schools plan has received a pay-off by the city council to drop his industrial tribunal.

Colin Dalrymple, former deputy education director, is understood to have received a low four-figure sum in return for not pursuing a case of wrongful dismissal.

Now sprinkle a bit of truth into the Council’s part of the story.Â Mr. Dalrymple in fact has dropped the tribunal against the council because it is financially opportune to do so, unlike the twaddle that the council have put out to the press.

The truth of the story according to a senior council source is not only that he will receive the low four-figure sum but also receive a golden parachute of close on Â£180,000 and a full pension of around Â£40,000 a year for the rest of his life.

This was yet another public servant that the Council didn’t want to appear in front of a tribunal for fear of him singing like a canary from the witness box and shaming the Children & Families heirarchy for the bunch of tossers they areÂ (well according to their staff, they are).

Regular readers will know that Dalrymple was the person in Children & Families who in the whistleblower case who heldÂ a hearing into the e-mails sent by the whistleblower to Donald “Teflon Don” Anderson, and issued a written warning to the whistleblower despite evidence from Mr Anderson that he considered the e-mails to be protected disclosure.

Finally a question, how much more will the PPP new schools plan now cost one year later?Â Rosendale or Jobson, get in touch and let us know.

Â Â