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The Bunty Corruption, by the Staff Vol III of many

By The Basa ⋅ May 1, 2007 ⋅

The news from the Pilton Elderly Project just keeps on coming…..

Service Users files and information from them went missing when the only qualified member of staff running the Neighbourhood Group was made redundant in July of last year.Â The Manager (Councillor Elizabeth “Bunty Backhander” Maginnis) blamed this occurrence on this individual.Â However, staff witnessed the files and some of hte information was there after this individual’s departure.Â We have no doubt that this was the Manager (Councillor Elizabeth “Bunty Backhander” Maginnis) attempting to cover up the victimisation of staff as the files were of a higher standard of work than produced by other staff directly supporting the group, records in black and white how unnecessary the redundancy was the abuse over nine thousand pounds of taxpayers money as a redundancy payment.

and a bit more for this Volume III

I have also enclosed an amateur standard letter from the Manager (Councillor Elizabeth “Bunty Backhander” Maginnis) to referring agencies as proof of the manager “misleading” referring agencies by stating named staff “were all appropriately qualified staff”.Â Karen Newmarch was employed as a Mental Health Worker to lead the Neighbourhood Group and has no mental health qualifications, Gerry Imrie who supported the group and ran his own group was the only qualified member of staff directly supporting the groups and was made redundant by the manager for questioning the running of the project.Â Janet Cook-Mills had no qualifications or traning and was previously a bus driver for PEP.Â Staff later replacing redundant staff were also unqualified.

We would like the author(s) of the dossier to contact us if they feel we are not highlighting the parts that they would like to see highlighted.Â More information would also be handy, including how, if at all, the publicity is affecting the Service Users this week.

Volume IV coming soon….. and from reading www.piltonsucks.com this morning – it appears that they too had a meeting with Joke McConnell yesterday and handed over this very dossier.

If you live in the Forth ward – Vote for Independent Candidate Fred Marinello (any relation to Pete Marinello the footballer?)

As the staff themselves say……

We do what we can, though as many who have had their employment terminated by the manager (CouncillorÂ Elizabeth “Bunty Backhander” Maginnis)Â in the past by questioning or challenging the running of the project, our jobs are at risk and we all have children and mortgages to provide for.