Training Now Thats a NETE thought
Does anybody out there in North Edinburgh remember an organisation called NETE[North Edinburgh Training And Employment] We ask because we came across a former employee who told us a strange tale indeed.
Alec told us that NETE had been a successful training agency helping a number of people get back or into employment offering a number of different schemes with which to do so. We have to say that one of our associates has since told us he had used NETE as a stepping stone to employment and thought they were very helpful and constructive. He Told us that Tracy the then manager was dedicated to making NETE a real success and was popular with the service users and the staff.
So what was the problem that caused NETE to shut up shop. We dug a little deeper asking around about NETE and talking to people in Muirhouse we found some interesting detail, it was a little sketchy,so we sat down and tried to do, A RAY HARRIS and join it all up.
We discovered NETE had a board of directors and was a company limited by guarantee. So we tried to discover who was on the board we got one name and suprise suprise guess who nowght to do with me Fitzpatrick. Now we know that there was more than him and if you want to come forward feel free.
Anyway it seems that Tracy was not popular with everybody and in particular Councillor Mcginnis,who we were told had it in for NETE. Now we can deduce from this that she had a hand in its demise alongside Councillor Hinds who dragged councillor Fitzpatrick alongside. Information was very hard to come accross as no-one was prepared or knew much about the final days of NETE. Again we dug deeper and found the hand of the Pilton Partnership involved. Why,well we found that the partnership had some hand in the fundng of NETE and low and behold Councillor Mcginnis chairs the Partnership.
Co-incidence dont think so do you. This is where the trail goes cold and re-appears when a meeting was held in the housing department.At that meeting we are informed was Betty lapdog Stevenson Ian Cooke Caroline Pickering and some others whose names we do not have. It transpires at this meeting a decision was taken to shut NETE and bring in a private organisation called Working Links,and grant them the astonishing figure of £250,000 as a start up. This organisation has close links[no pun intended] to a large banking organisation.
So it seems NETE was done in and replaced by a private conglomerate which was put in place on the instructions of Messers Mcginnis and Hinds,with Fitzpatrick bringing up the rear.
So in summary NETE was wound up because they upset a couple of elected members empress Mcginnis and Aunty Lesley,so they set about the destruction of a sucessful  training agency which helped a lot of local people and employed local people as well. So what about Working Links. They are based in a shop in Ferry Road Drive and does anybody locally know anything about them. Thought not. So they replaced NETE in very dubious circumstances just to satisfy the political gratifications of our rulers.
So what happened to accountability,disappeared in this case as has most of the evidence has,wonder why? Â