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Children & Families still in the gutter with new council

By The Basa ⋅ December 17, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

It seems that the new broom is still stuck unwrapped in the corner since the SNP/Lib-Dem rabble moved in and hasn’t made it to clean out the trash in Children & Families.
As all staff members will know, there is a hiring freeze in the Community Learning & Development (CLD) section of Children & Families. Fortunately, [...]

The Rosendale “Black Hole” Hitlist

By The Basa ⋅ October 11, 2007 ⋅ One comment

After School Clubs and Community Centres on the Fraudster Rosendale’s ‘Black Hole’ List.
No stone has been left unturned in the current purge by Fraudster Rosendale in looking to raise cash to throw into the ‘black hole’ of £13.5 million (now widely understood in Children and Families to be £35 million) that he has created as [...]

Sorry Porty, we (Labour council) forgot to ask for the money

By The Basa ⋅ October 1, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Everyone around the city spent hours and hours on campaigns to get their new school built.  Labour were running round the city pretending to “listen to the people”, they even lied at a public meeting that they had bought a piece of land to be used as the new Portobello Golf course – unfortunately, it [...]

Rosendale wants frontline services cut – surprised?

By The Basa ⋅ September 30, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Word into us from the Community Learning & Development (CLD) staff are unhappy about their boss and the proposals he put to the meeting on Friday at Craigroyston to discuss the pending review of service.  What’s new there you ask? 
Well, while they are stating to Councillors that it is a review of management and staff [...]

More council money down the drain

By The Basa ⋅ September 17, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

In the midst of all the huge cuts in services in the city and never smart in the IT arena, word reaches us that the council (mainly Children & Families) are again throwing our money down the toilet on needless purchases.
The company have signed up with Australian company StudyWiz for their Virtual Learning Environment. 
What makes [...]

Rosendale going at full throttle, WHY?

By The Basa ⋅ September 17, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Lot of news in from Children & Families as usual.   The staff thought that with the change of administration there would be a change in the hugely authoritarian nature of the department over the past five years which has seen morale drop to rock bottom and stay there for a couple of years now.
One of [...]

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