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Thursday, March 08, 2007

Edinburgh Nursery scandal

Moves are afoot inside Edinburgh city Council to axe 200 full time nursery places across the city.

Last Thursday I asked, current Council leader, Ewan Aitken – who was previously the Education convenor and head of the Children & Families department – to assure me he has no plans to cut these essential services. He responded 2 days ago by saying he would reply with urgency!

The council, in the January ‘07 edition of Working Capital, highlight a recent study by Women onto Work which shows that 65% of women in Edinburgh see childcare as the number one barrier to getting into work. Losing 200 nursery places will have a devastating effect on women and their families in the city.

Nursery nurses in Edinburgh fought a long, hard strike a few years back for decent pay and conditions, and this is how they are repaid, by making their jobs redundant, moving them on to posts they don’t want and losing their skills in the process.

I've recently lodged the following questions in the Scottish Parliament



S2W-32239 - Colin Fox (Lothians) (SSP) (Date Lodged 6 March 2007) : To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are any plans to reduce the number of full-time nursery places available for three and four-year-olds in south and south-east Edinburgh.

Due for Answer 20 March 2007

S2W-32238 - Colin Fox (Lothians) (SSP) (Date Lodged 6 March 2007) : To ask the Scottish Executive what the public sector provision is of full-time and part-time nursery places for three and four-year-olds in south Edinburgh.

Due for Answer 20 March 2007

4 comments:

George Dutton said...

Colin wrote...
"Moves are afoot inside Edinburgh city Council to axe 200 full time nursery places across the city."

NEW Labour do everything to FORCE people to work when they have children to look after and then pull the rug out from under them when they try there very best to work.I can only conclued that NEW Labour have one very SICK Sense of Humour.I make no Apologies in saying it is SADISTICT not only to the children and there families but also the Nursery nurses in Edinburgh.Let this be a warning to all what to expect if they vote NEW Labour.

George Dutton said...

Taken from the SNP web site...

"It's time to keep healthcare local
The "SNP" will protect vital local health services, give the public a "say" in decisions on the future of local hospitals and do "more" to give young Scots the healthiest start in life."

Goes to show the GREAT gulf between socialists and the SNP if they were like us the above would have said this...

It's time to keep healthcare local
The "socialist" will protect vital local health services, give the public "the" decisions on the future of local hospitals and do "everything" to give young Scots the healthiest start in life.

It shows the mindset of the SNP and what is to come.
You just know that you are on a loser with the SNP.

Anonymous said...

I was going to vote ssp but after your cheap pathetic dig at brian souter ,on newsnight,ie slandering him as a homophobe and a bigot i will not be supporting you or your party.
you seem to be the bigot in this case.

Colin Fox MSP said...

Brian Soutar ran an anti-gay campaign against the repeal of section 28 that makes him a homophobe and a bigot - if the SNP are happy to accept his money that says more about their judgement than anything else