>In June, a Skanska representative wrote to the schools saying anything left in place over the summer would be moved to another part of the school to enable cleaning. But they said “no items will be disposed of”, with those words underlined and italicised for emphasis.
Then
>Ms Robertson wrote to head teachers and childcare centre managers in a letter dated July 30 to say: “Arrangements have been made to remove some of the existing inappropriate items over the summer holiday period. Disposal costs will be charged back to the individual school’s budget.”
>However, it was not sent until almost three weeks later, on August 19. By that time, staff had already returned to the schools to find their furniture and equipment in skips.
And
>“The staff obviously had plans for today and tomorrow, including training sessions which have had to be altered to begin looking at relocating the furniture back.”
As well as not communicating with the playgroups
.
You couldn’t make this up. People go off on a break having had written assurance that nothing will be binned, to come back to find it binned, then to get the warning letter that stuff might be binned.
Serious questions need to asked, with the first being how the hell does it take 3 weeks to send a letter? Surely given the timescale and number of schools a phone call to each and an email wouldn’t be onerous.
#Fuckingskanska
“any furniture introduced to the facilities MUST be supplied by the Authority (council) through their agreed procurement partners; this should ensure that what is provided is safe to be used in the school environment”
This is a load of bollocks. It’s so that “approved suppliers” can be guaranteed a wee monopoly while those procurement procedures are in force.
“However, an email from Ms Robertson explains how she was contacted in July over “concerns about the amount of non-compliant items that were a fire and health and health and safety risk””
Again this won’t be down to unapproved furniture despite their claims. From experience the fire hazards will almost exclusively be paper pinned/taped to walls and doors. Ant issues with furniture is almost always down to it being in inappropriate locations (impeding fire escape routes).
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>In June, a Skanska representative wrote to the schools saying anything left in place over the summer would be moved to another part of the school to enable cleaning. But they said “no items will be disposed of”, with those words underlined and italicised for emphasis.
Then
>Ms Robertson wrote to head teachers and childcare centre managers in a letter dated July 30 to say: “Arrangements have been made to remove some of the existing inappropriate items over the summer holiday period. Disposal costs will be charged back to the individual school’s budget.”
>However, it was not sent until almost three weeks later, on August 19. By that time, staff had already returned to the schools to find their furniture and equipment in skips.
And
>“The staff obviously had plans for today and tomorrow, including training sessions which have had to be altered to begin looking at relocating the furniture back.”
As well as not communicating with the playgroups
.
You couldn’t make this up. People go off on a break having had written assurance that nothing will be binned, to come back to find it binned, then to get the warning letter that stuff might be binned.
Serious questions need to asked, with the first being how the hell does it take 3 weeks to send a letter? Surely given the timescale and number of schools a phone call to each and an email wouldn’t be onerous.
#Fuckingskanska
“any furniture introduced to the facilities MUST be supplied by the Authority (council) through their agreed procurement partners; this should ensure that what is provided is safe to be used in the school environment”
This is a load of bollocks. It’s so that “approved suppliers” can be guaranteed a wee monopoly while those procurement procedures are in force.
“However, an email from Ms Robertson explains how she was contacted in July over “concerns about the amount of non-compliant items that were a fire and health and health and safety risk””
Again this won’t be down to unapproved furniture despite their claims. From experience the fire hazards will almost exclusively be paper pinned/taped to walls and doors. Ant issues with furniture is almost always down to it being in inappropriate locations (impeding fire escape routes).
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