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.

Would you buy a second hand car from this krew

Our departed Lord Provost, famously called a “Sow’s Ear” by yet another more departed councillor really needs to come back down to earth and get in amongst the people she is supposed to be representing. Oh, I forgot, she did that and didn’t like it at all.

News from Lesley Hinds (aspiring Labour leader in the city) on her blog is that when she braved the storm of the minion public on Saturday to get people to sign up for the

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

More Children & Families disarray

Big Hoose for council employee

Yet more examples come out showing how the largest department in the Council and the one with the biggest budget and biggest overspend is still totally out of control despite a new Director and new Executive Member. This goes to prove that the posts ad infinitum we have ran about [...]

Ewan Aitken – not seeing correctly.

Edinburgh’s Council labour leader Ewan Aitken is in fear of losing the leader’s role because a few Labour councillors are just waiting in the wings to get their hands on the job – are they not Lesley? To help him keep his position, he has again been blustering to the Evening News about the [...]

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, [...]