A simply hellish day which began with news that the Forth ward's Fairer Scotland Fund has taken a total doing...dropping from £1.7m to £1.06m meaning Christ knows what for voluntary projects across North Edinburgh including PEP...
Employability is one of the key targets but they need to think again about this set of proposals. It is bound to lead to job losses in the area... for example, last year PEP employed 17 people of whom 15 lived locally. At the beginning of the financial year we made 2 people redundant because grants did not keep up with inflation and rising costs...this latest news can only mean one thing...more job losses across the voluntary sector...
So much for a left wing SNP government or a caring Liberal council - and all these so called 'activists' who have pilloried Labour for years need to take a long hard look at themselves...is this really what they want for local communities who are already on the ropes? I think not.
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