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Christine Mackay Archive
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Catch-up on front-line services slash
Posted on January 24, 2008 | 1 CommentIt 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
Posted on January 21, 2008 | 3 CommentsIt 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
Posted on December 17, 2007 | No CommentsIt 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... -
Rosendale wants frontline services cut – surprised?
Posted on September 30, 2007 | No CommentsWord 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... -
Rosendale going at full throttle, WHY?
Posted on September 17, 2007 | No CommentsLot 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... -
Strategy, what strategy.
Posted on August 31, 2007 | No CommentsA 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 & Development on the line
Posted on August 27, 2007 | No CommentsNews into EdSucks towers is that The Fraudster formerly known as Rosendale is telling all and any councillor that will listen that scrapping CLD will help enormously because “the workers... -
Rosendale cohorts – you know the info is lies
Posted on August 11, 2007 | No CommentsIt seems that Children & Families Head of Neighbourhood Services, his wife and cohorts are spreading the rumour that “papers have been served and Edinburgh Sucks has been closed down”.... -
Mrs Rosendale fighting democracy in Leith
Posted on June 4, 2007 | No CommentsMrs Rosendale, wife of the council’s infamous Fraudster Mike Rosendale, has been up to her tricks again down Leith way. News into the towers is that she turned up at... -
The Rosendales still on the offensive
Posted on May 28, 2007 | No CommentsHopefully the new LibDem/SNP coalition have some idea of how to run the Children & Families department. Their head of Neighbourhood Services, Mike ‘Fraudster’ Rosendale is telling anyone that will listen... -
Community Centres taking a stand
Posted on March 27, 2007 | No CommentsLast night a pretty full room of Community Centre Management Committee members from across the city had a meeting in the Southside Community Education Centre. The group known as the... -
Al Frater, come clean…..
Posted on February 12, 2007 | No CommentsWe hear that one of the kingpins in the missing £400,000 from ELLP with Ewan Aitken and Lesley Anderson on the board together with company secretary, fraudster, liar and thug... -
The shredders are spinning the Rosendale Way
Posted on November 30, 2006 | No CommentsNews coming in from Children & Families sources report that departmental Fraudster-in-Chief is, “shredding everything in the guise the department has to downsize for their move to the new building.“Â ... -
Mackay, Bunty Backhander and Worm Munro do it the Craigmillar Way
Posted on November 7, 2006 | No CommentsWith Leith Community Centre taking 3,000 members through their doors every week and a management committee who have more than 100 groups using their centre weekly, it seems that this... -
Jonah Jobson’s replacement picked according to Suttie, MacKay and Paul James
Posted on November 6, 2006 | No CommentsWell 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... -
Rosendale’s revenge to affect 3,000 Leithers weekly
Posted on November 3, 2006 | No CommentsIt seems that Mike “Fraudster” Rosendale will take revenge no matter who it hurts. The latest news into EdSucks is that the devious council official has teamed up with one...