Catch-up on front-line services slash

It seems our “exclusive” earlier this week on the slashing of front-line services in Community Learning Development (CLD) section of Children & Familes is really doing the rounds on the internet and in print publications in the city. Opposition politicians in the Council are up in arms that they have to come to rely on EdSucks towers to find out what they should be finding out in committee.

John Ross, service conditions convenor of the toothless union known as Unison (and also a member of the Council’s own management we have been informed) has joined the council and also shown his total disgregard for our city’s communities.

CLD front line services to be slashed

It seems that six Edinburgh community centres are going to have their front-line worker taken away in the latest slashing in Children and Families. Interestingly, the report that shows the slashing was only came out two days after the last Education, Children & Families Committee meeting and all the neighbourhood based paper-pushing Managers are all sitting happy in their jobs. EdinburghSucks revealed some time ago that the CLD Managers’ salary packages were ₤80,464 back in 2005/06

Children & Families still in the gutter with new council

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, [...]

Rosendale wants frontline services cut – surprised?

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 [...]

Rosendale going at full throttle, WHY?

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 [...]

Strategy, what strategy.

A couple of years ago, Children & Families head of strategy, Fraudster Mike Rosendale managed to push through a plan that would put in two extra levels of management in Community Learning and Development (CLD).  Regular readers will remember that EdSucks broke the story that the Neighbourhood Managers’ salaries alone would cost the taxpayers of [...]