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Children & Families Archive
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Children & Families Officials complain to the press – whoops!
Posted on July 28, 2006 | No CommentsNews into EdinburghSucks.com is that the council officials are asking for an apology (not from EdSucks) about the figures that the press have been using in the recent story we... -
Children & Families rises the same as Ministerial ones
Posted on July 27, 2006 | No CommentsIt was interesting to see The Scotsman, The Evening News, Radio Forth and Talk107 (sometimes called CouncilFM) all covering the story we broke about the massive pay rises in the... -
Children & Families Officials see salary soar up to 65%
Posted on July 21, 2006 | No CommentsInformation leaked to EdinburghSucks.com shows just how good it is to be one of the loved ones in the Chidren & Families Department. When last year their was a re-organisation of Education... -
Why was OpenAllHoors.com blamed on the whistleblower?
Posted on July 20, 2006 | 1 CommentSeemingly OpenAllHoors.com, a website by members of the Comunity Education Department taking a humourous view of the happenings in the department, was blamed on the whistleblower or Donald Reekie. In... -
Pete McDougall blowing the story to TES
Posted on July 18, 2006 | No CommentsNews into edinburghsucks.com is that one of Rosendale’s fraudsters, the jokingly called “Digital Champion”, Pete McDougall is in talks with Times Education Supplement to spill the beans on the whole Cityconnect... -
Despot heirarchy in Children & Families ruins education
Posted on July 18, 2006 | No CommentsJust how wrong can the Children & Families department get the education of our city wrong. Today we find from the Scotsman that Edinburgh have moved down in the list... -
Rosendale contributed to Craigmillar Childcare Services Fiasco
Posted on July 17, 2006 | 1 CommentFor the third time in two years, Craigmillar Childcare Services who have received almost one million pounds in public funding is ready to go bust. The latest revelations come on... -
Rosendale: “Whistleblower out by end of summer”
Posted on July 13, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that Mike ‘Fraudster’ Rosendale and his senior employees have been letting their fingers do the walking in the latest saga of the Whistleblower case. A personnel official in... -
New Leader Vol. III
Posted on July 10, 2006 | No CommentsThere is only one of the council leadership contenders left to highlight some of the problems they have in their current jobs.   Again, the third contender in a row... -
By George – He’s almost got it
Posted on July 8, 2006 | No CommentsFinally in 2006 the city’s Education leader is mentioning the Internet. Pupils are now to get information on how to stop preditors contacting them over the internet and what to... -
Bully brags about councillor’s backing
Posted on July 6, 2006 | No CommentsMike ‘Fraudster’ Rosendale the major bully in the Children & Families department has been bragging that “Ewan Aitken has told me the Councillors want the whistleblower out of the council... -
How to find Rosendale
Posted on July 3, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that searching for ‘Mike Rosendale’ around the internet leads users to quite an informational site! Â Engine Placed Page URL Found AOL Yes 1 www.edinburghsucks.com Google/ AOL Yes 1... -
Best education in the world – what happened?
Posted on July 3, 2006 | 1 CommentScotland was once the pride of the world when it came to Education. A Scots education was the key to opening doors back in the 70s and 80s and many... -
Teflon Don doesn’t trust Fraudster Rosendale
Posted on June 29, 2006 | No CommentsWell, well, well. Reading the answer given in today’s full council meeting from Counci Leader Teflon Don Anderson to Councillor Dawe with regard to Fraudster Rosendale’s handling of the Cityconnect... -
Cityconnect questions at full council – again
Posted on June 28, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that tomorrow’s full council meeting will again be discussing Cityconnect, ELLP and Wabster. Regular readers will know that this Head of Strategy for Children & Families’ gang of... -
Whistleblower heads to court
Posted on June 23, 2006 | No CommentsThe news this week that the whistleblower in the Cityconnect and ELLP fiasco is heading to court for further action against the council for their bungling cover-up of the loss... -
Cityconnect Alive and Kicking
Posted on June 9, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that the council, namely Councillor Rev. Ewan Aitken and his director Roy ‘Jonah’ Jobson are fully in support of their employees taking their work home with them. In... -
The £85,OOO council trainee
Posted on May 31, 2006 | No CommentsIt has been highlighted to us here at EdSucks that the huge problem of how the Cityconnect/ELLP krew managed to somehow arrange for £400,OOO and £188,OOO worth of equipment to... -
Council catching up with EdSucks
Posted on May 30, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that the monthly full council meeting is trying to catch up with the stories on EdinburghSucks. The investigation into Cityconnect and ELLP is being asked for my Councillor... -
Donald Anderson – Tell the truth, PLEASE!
Posted on May 29, 2006 | No CommentsCouncillor Anderson, you REALLY must be joking! “We will be seeking firm assurances from the head of the department involved that these problems have been properly dealt with.” The head...