The City of Edinburgh Council voted last week to abandon the planned privatisation of some of their staff sectors. The Council brought to an end the Alternative Business Model that it had been investigating since 2009. According to this model, the cou...
Wed 01 Feb 2012 by Jenny Kassner | Read more »
Back in February 2009, nearly two years after they took control of the local Council, the SNP/Lib-Dem Coalition that runs Edinburgh approved a budget that included the decision to look at the potential privatisation of essential front-line services. T...
Wed 02 Nov 2011 by Andrew Burns | Read more »
The campaign surrounding Edinburgh City Council’s proposed Alternative Business Models (ABM), took a turn in favour of the protestors as the SNP declared that they would not back it. The ABM policy, proposed by the council in December 2009, woul...
Wed 02 Nov 2011 by Emma Elliott-Walker | Read more »
Vital services are expected to suffer as Edinburgh Council faces budget cuts of £90 million over the next three years. To achieve the £90m savings, a 10 percent reduction in support costs across all services will be required, with 4 percen...
Wed 20 Jan 2010 by Alison Fulford | Read more »
