Edinburgh Sucks! | The Bunty Corruption, by the Staff Vol I of many

Elizabeth Maginnis

The Bunty Corruption, by the Staff Vol I of many

By The Basa ⋅ April 29, 2007 ⋅

Here isÂ Volume I of many – from the staff of the Pilton Elderly Project.

The manager (Councillor Elizabeth McGinnis) has employed unqualified/untrained staff of little experience to run the Neighbourhood Group as well as other groups run by Pilton Elderly Project (PEP). The neighbourgood group – basically the ex-Muirhouse Six Circle Group – is comprised of people with mental health problems, disabilities, learning difficulties, offenders and the unemployed.

Major issues within the group are Service Users suffering from regular epileptic and diabetic seizures, challenging behaviour-from individuals including people with long and enduring mental health problems some may be from secure units,offenders of whom some may have committed capital offences and are on placement from prison, staff must have ability, training and qualifications in supporting and enabling such a mixed group to manage a variety of complex issues.

For the past six months the manager has employed MH to run the Neighbourhood Group an individual who has no qualifications, little training, only some experience of some of the issues involved and for the past year JC who also has no qualifications, training and very little experience and was previously employed as a PEP bus driver.

MH and JC who run the Neighbourhood Group and are UNQUALIFIED and UNTRAINED as previously stated.Â They have been seen by staff attending a Service User who had taken an epileptic seizure â€œmimickingâ€ how they had seen previous staff attend the Service User WG.

On one occasion JC panicked in the main office in front of staff when finding out what a new/previous Service Userâ€™s HH supports needs were, stating she was not qualified or trained to deal with such support needs. This was also witnessed/overheard by Lisa Ross from the Drylaw Inclusion Project [September 05]

HH is now escorted by a member of staff at all times from the Inclusion Project while attending PEP were before Muirhouse Six Circle staff attended to HHâ€™s needs.

Little or no genuine keyworking is being done for the members of the Neighbourhood Group or PEP’s volunteerâ€™s due to the manager employing unqualified,untrained inexperienced staff with no concept of the theories, assessment, medical knowledge and practicalities of keyworking such a complex group.

Truely shocking and a daming insight into how Councillor Maginnis mis-manages this project with itâ€™s vunerable service users. We demand as a matter of urgency the removal of Councillor McGinnis as manager of PEP and her immediate resignation as Councillor.

The above is no where near the worst.Â Wait till you hear about the embezzlement.Â If you are in the Forth ward, are you going to vote for this lady or her sidekick William ‘Billy’ Fitzpatrick who must have known that this was going on in his ward.Â If he didn’t – then he is some sh1tty councillor.