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	<title>Edinburgh Sucks! &#187; Social Work</title>
	<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com</link>
	<description>An account of how the politicians and officials are screwing our city.</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Elizabeth Maginnis IS bent, and we have the proof</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/04/25/elizabeth-maginnis-is-bent-and-we-have-the-proof/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2007/04/25/elizabeth-maginnis-is-bent-and-we-have-the-proof/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Maginnis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lesley Hinds]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Peter Grabitas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Work]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[William Fitzpatrick]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? It seems our much used cartoon of Bunty Backhander was right on the mark and things will now start crumbling, but not necessarily starting with the Waterfront Project. 
We have been forwarded a document which finally proves that long-time Labour Councillor Elizabeth Maginnis (or Bunty Backhander as we call her) IS bent.  The document [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jonah Jobson&#8217;s replacement picked according to Suttie, MacKay and Paul James</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/11/06/jonah-jobsons-replacement-picked-according-to-suttie-mackay-and-paul-james/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/11/06/jonah-jobsons-replacement-picked-according-to-suttie-mackay-and-paul-james/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Burns]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Children &#038; Families]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Christine Mackay]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[David Hillson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Education Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ewan Aitken]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mike Rosendale]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Roy Jobson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Work]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/11/06/jonah-jobsons-replacement-picked-according-to-suttie-mackay-and-paul-james/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Well the news has come in from multiple sources this weekend that senior Children and Families officials, Christine Mackay, Derek Suttie (the man who went to a Unison meeting and asked the union to approach the council to make sure that EdSucks couldn&#8217;t appear on council computers), and Paul James are now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What we think of Head of Social Work Services</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/11/06/what-we-think-of-head-of-social-work-services/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/11/06/what-we-think-of-head-of-social-work-services/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Burns]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Children &#038; Families]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pamela Armstrong]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Roy Jobson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Work]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/11/06/what-we-think-of-head-of-social-work-services/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? With a hat-tip to one of our correspondents for informing us of this disgusting story, here goes.  Pamela Armstrong, the head of Social Work services at Children &#038; Families has been in for a bit of a kicking from the good citizens of Edinburgh for her latest fiasco involving her abysmal treatment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Care Department - or is it?</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/08/23/social-care-department-or-is-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/08/23/social-care-department-or-is-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2006 19:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Guest]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Peter Grabitas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Work]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/08/23/social-care-department-or-is-it/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? A guest has asked to write about their work in Edinburgh - we decided to give them the platform. Maybe You-Ann as the Nu-Leeder can take it in hand for the people of the city who are most in need of help:
&#8220;Many people will be aware of the fact that the delivery of Community [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council must be worried about bullied worker&#8217;s £800,000 win</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/08/02/council-must-be-worried-about-bullied-worker-%c2%a3800000-win/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/08/02/council-must-be-worried-about-bullied-worker-%c2%a3800000-win/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 22:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Alistar Frater]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Children &#038; Families]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[David Hillson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Education Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ewan Aitken]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Kingsley Thomas]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Labour Leadership Race]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lesley Hinds]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lord Provost]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mike Rosendale]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pete McDougall]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Roy Jobson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Work]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/08/03/council-must-be-worried-about-bullied-worker-%c2%a3800000-win/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? With the news coming in that a bank worker in London won £800,000 damages for four year bullying campaign by bank staff  (http://www.scotsman.com/?id=1118332006) the council legal department must be worried about upcoming legal cases against the council.
The highly publicised Children &#038; Families whistleblower is now taking action against the council, Dr. Christine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children &#038; Families rises the same as Ministerial ones</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/07/27/children-families-rises-the-same-as-ministerial-ones/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/07/27/children-families-rises-the-same-as-ministerial-ones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Children &#038; Families]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Education Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ewan Aitken]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mike Rosendale]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Roy Jobson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Work]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tom Aitchison]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/07/27/children-families-rises-the-same-as-ministerial-ones/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? It 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 and Families department.  What was most interesting about the coverage is that UNISON were wheeled out to back them.
On looking closer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children &#038; Families Officials see salary soar up to 65%</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/07/21/children-families-officials-see-salary-soar-up-to-65/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/07/21/children-families-officials-see-salary-soar-up-to-65/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Children &#038; Families]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Education Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ewan Aitken]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mike Rosendale]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Roy Jobson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Work]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/07/21/children-families-officials-see-salary-soar-up-to-65/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Information leaked to EdinburghSucks.com shows just how good it is to be one of the loved ones in the Chidren &#038; Families Department.
When last year their was a re-organisation of Education and Social Work into Children &#038; Families some of the officials saw their salary almost double and we are now going to ask [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rosendale contributed to Craigmillar Childcare Services Fiasco</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/07/17/rosendale-contributed-to-craigmillar-childcare-services-fiasco/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/07/17/rosendale-contributed-to-craigmillar-childcare-services-fiasco/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Children &#038; Families]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[David Walker]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Education Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mike Rosendale]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Patsy King]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Paul Nolan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Work]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/07/17/rosendale-contributed-to-craigmillar-childcare-services-fiasco/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? For 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 the heel of senior officials of Children &#038; Families meeting with Ms. King to try and sort out the latest crisis.
The project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council whistleblowing is bad for your purse</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/03/10/council-whistleblowing-is-bad-for-your-purse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/03/10/council-whistleblowing-is-bad-for-your-purse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Alistar Frater]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Children &#038; Families]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[David Hillson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Education Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ewan Aitken]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jim Inch]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lesley Hinds]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lord Provost]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mike Rosendale]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Work]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/03/10/council-whistleblowing-is-bad-for-your-purse/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? A point that is screamingly obvious is in a letter I sent to the Edinburgh Evening News which they did not publish…
“The award of £5000 was rather insulting to a man who spent three times more than this on legal fee’s trying to defend his good name and fighting to keep his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bullying - The Council culture</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/03/10/bullying-the-council-culture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/03/10/bullying-the-council-culture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 05:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Alistar Frater]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[COSLA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Children &#038; Families]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Council Departments]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Council Official]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Councillors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[David Hillson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ewan Aitken]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jim Inch]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lesley Hinds]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lord Provost]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mike Rosendale]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pete McDougall]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Work]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Unison]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/03/10/bullying-the-council-culture/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Councillor Rev. Ewan Aitken seems in last night&#8217;s print version of the Evening News to be coming out against bullying which to us at EdinburghSucks.com, the Community Education department and the Social Work department seems rather strange when we believe that &#8216;The Hippy Rev&#8217; actually lords over huge amounts of bullying in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rosendale on the ropes</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/02/26/rosendale-on-the-ropes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/02/26/rosendale-on-the-ropes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2006 22:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Alistar Frater]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Children &#038; Families]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[David Hillson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Education Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mike Rosendale]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pete McDougall]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Work]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/02/26/rosendale-on-the-ropes-time-for-aitken-to-move/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Mike Rosendale, the man who 97% (1,087 out of 1,124) of EdinburgSucks.com readers want fired from his job as &#8220;Head of Strategic Planning&#8221; at Chidren &#038; Families, it seems is taking silly and pathetic steps in his quest to keep his, possibly criminal activities, under wraps.
After voting to have him fired, our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will investigation be open and fair?</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/02/25/will-investigation-be-open-and-fair/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/02/25/will-investigation-be-open-and-fair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2006 23:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Alistar Frater]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Children &#038; Families]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[David Hillson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Education Dept.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ewan Aitken]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Home Office]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jenny Dawe]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lesley Hinds]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lord Provost]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mike Rosendale]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pete McDougall]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Work]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/02/25/will-investigation-be-open-and-fair/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? According to an article in tonight&#8217;s Evening News the council voted on Wednesday to carry out an investigation into whistleblowing cases going back to the year 2000.  A motion by Lib Dem leader Jenny Dawe was approved at Wednesday&#8217;s full council meeting.
The investigation comes on the heal of the Council being fined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s overwhelming - 97% say Rosendale Out!</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/02/21/its-overwhelming-97-say-rosendale-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/02/21/its-overwhelming-97-say-rosendale-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Alistar Frater]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Children &#038; Families]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[David Hillson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Donald Anderson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ewan Aitken]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lesley Hinds]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lord Provost]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mike Rosendale]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Work]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Unison]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Yesterday&#8217;s poll on EdinburghSucks.com was overwhelming.  1,124 people cast a vote and the result was overwhelming (The results are here).  1,087 voted that Mike Rosendale should be fired with a measly 37 voting against it.  Although this poll was not scientific, it is an amazing result and it sends a message to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council covering up bullying?</title>
		<link>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/02/14/council-covering-up-bullying/</link>
		<comments>http://www.edinburghsucks.com/2006/02/14/council-covering-up-bullying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Basa</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Social Work]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[is basa real? Over at PiltonSucks.com they have a rather disturbing article on how the council is turning a blind eye to bullying in, of all places, the Muirhouse Social Work Department.  The site is calling for an investigation.
We have been told through informed sources that at least two cases of bullying at the Muirhouse [...]]]></description>
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