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Eastendeye Edition6 The Eastend Eye Summer/Autumn 2013 Free! The Eastend Eye p2 p3 p4 Dear Gordon Dear Alex About the Eye Broken commitments and Accord Centre becomes political Find out more about the Eye and how to faltering ‘legacy’ football between parties. contact and support us. Save the Accord Campaigners Open Letter Where’s our Legacy? Special Open Letters to the City Leader and First Minister For over 2 years now, the Save the Salmond concedes that the Accord Centre users with severe learning Accord campaign has protested against Centre carers and users have every needs have described the loss of vital the closure of their day care centre reason to feel “legitimately aggrieved” amenities, and the friendships and in the East End of Glasgow. Because that legacy commitments have not security provided by the centre that of the Commonwealth Games, the been fulfilled. But despite numerous are no longer available. With under a Accord Centre has been demolished for assurances, no solution has been found year to go until the start of the games a bus park for temporary use during and the whole East end of Glasgow is this situation must be resolved. An the games. Despite promises for a left with no adequate day-care facility. adequate replacement for this service, new build replacement centre, the The group have complained of being as promised, should be a priority. Labour-led City Council now argue treated like a ‘political football’ between Anything less is an embarrassment that the austere ‘economic climate’ the Council and the SNP, when all to both the Council and the Scottish means there will be no new day care they want is the facilities they lost Government, and a travesty of ‘legacy’ centre. Instead the carers and users of and were promised would be replaced. promises that should be shouted from the centre have been shunted to a hired The campaign continues to fight for the rooftops. This special edition room in the Bambury community these services, not just for themselves, publishes open letters from the East centre. This facility is not an adequate but for the whole community. End Carers to Glasgow City Council replacement for the Accord Centre. They deserve our full support. Leader, Gordon Mathieson, and Both the Scottish Government and ‘Legacy’ is a much abused term Scottish First Minister, Alex Salmond. City Council have highlighted the with very little actual meaning for Read them, circulate them, show importance of a ‘Games Legacy’. Alex the people of the East End. Accord solidarity - demand a decent legacy! 2 The Eastend Eye Summer/Autumn 2013 Open Letter to City Leader Gordon Matheson Dear Mr. Matheson, also making a “guarantee” that if the carers need a new We are writing this open letter to you because a centre then service will continue. suitable Day Care replacement Centre has still not been Users and carers of the Accord Centre had every found since the Accord Centre was demolished for a reason to take this “guarantee” in good faith, even Commonwealth Games bus park. This means there becoming involved in design and planning for the is now no purpose-built day centre in the whole East new build centre, as suggested by Mark Feinmann at End of Glasgow. That the Accord centre was closed the meeting on 30th May 2008. In a letter to Labour down by the City Council because of the Games is Councillor George Redmond, David Crawford, former indisputable, as letters to carers from Labour Party Executive Director of Social Care Services, accepted Councillor, Euan MacLeod (08.03.2011), and SNP that Councillor Coleman and Mark Feinmann had Social Care spokesperson, David McDonald (17.03.2011), given a “strong message” to the East End Carers group confirm. “that a legacy development was possible”. He further The relocation of users and carers from the Accord stated that Raymond Bell, head of Mental Health, had Centre to the Bambury centre in Barrowfield is confirmed Councillor Coleman and Mark Feinmann’s unsuitable and inappropriate as we have expressed “commitment” to the carers was “genuine”. many times and as the First Minister, Alex Salmond In the same letter, however, David Crawford agrees. The Accord Centre provided a vital sense of outlined a contrary position that Glasgow City Council community and ‘home’ to service-users with highly have more recently adopted, arguing that events have specialised needs, because of the availability of changed “given the financial crisis” and thus there is specialist equipment for the learning disabled and “no prospect of the Council having capital to build a because of the exclusive use of the building during the new centre”. We do not accept this position. We ask the day. The Bambury Community Centre, for the many City Council to make good on its guarantee to people reasons outlined in the East Carers response to the Joint with severe learning disabilities as a matter of urgency. Improvement Team (JIT) report on Accord Centre We further note that a lack of money did not prevent re-provisioning, does not provide a substitute for the David Crawford himself receiving an exorbitant security and comfort to service-users that a purpose- severance package of nearly £600,000 from his job as built learning disability centre, such as the Accord Director of Social Work in Glasgow, while budget cuts centre, can bring. decimate social services for the rest of us. What must be emphasized again and again is that A further open letter has been sent to First Minister East Carers were offered a “new centre” to replace Alex Salmond. We have no interest in a ‘political the Accord Centre - not an inadequate room in a football’ game between the Labour Party and the SNP community facility. This is evidenced by meeting over this issue. We simply ask that a proper solution minutes from an East Glasgow Community Health is found for the needs of people with severe learning Care Partnership meeting (ECHCP) on 30th May, 2008. disabilities in the East End as promised. We assure you At this meeting Labour Councillor, Jim Coleman and that the ‘legacy’ ideal of the Games will forever be Mark Feinmann, then East Glasgow CHCP Director, tainted if commitments made by both the City Council acknowledged the need for either a “new centre” or and Scottish Government are not ensured. “new build centre” several times, with Mr. Coleman East Carers Group, August, 21st, 2013 The Eastend Eye Summer/Autumn 2013 3 Open Letter to First Minister Alex Salmond Dear Mr. Salmond, the Accord centre had reason to take in good faith. The We are writing this open public letter to you because care of those with severe learning disabilities is at stake a solution has still not been found to what you have after all. The carers were even involved in helping to described, in a letter to City Council leader Gordon design and plan the new build centre - as suggested Matheson, as our “legitimate concerns” over the by Mark Feinmann at the meeting on 30th May 2008. closure of The Accord day centre in Dalmarnock for In a letter to Labour Councillor George Redmond, people with severe learning disabilities. In the letter, David Crawford, former Executive Director of Social you said you were “very concerned” about the closure Care Services, accepted that Councillor Coleman and of the centre, stressing that “no group should feel Mark Feinmann had given a “strong message” to the dispossessed” as a result of the Commonwealth Games. East End carers group “that a legacy development was Previously, when you visited the users and carers at the possible”. He further stated that Raymond Bell, head Accord centre in May 2011, you emphasised the fact of Mental Health, had confirmed Councillor Coleman that the Scottish Government - “all of us […] every and Mark Feinmann’s “commitment” to the carers was taxpayer in Scotland” - is paying 80% of the costs of the “genuine”. Games and you therefore have a “locus” on the issue. You also said that people in Scotland should have a “good feeling” about the Games. We assure you that we In a letter to the East do not have a ‘good feeling’ about the Games at present. carers group you said In the same meeting you said that if it could be established that a ‘like-for-like’ facility was promised you were “committed” on the basis that the Accord centre was being removed to “ensuring” that because of the Games, then you had “locus” to see that promise fulfilled. The evidence that the Accord centre the legacy of the was closed because of the Games is indisputable. The Commonwealth Games use of the term ‘like-for-like’ is your own. In fact what was offered was a “new centre”. This is evidenced by includes recognition of meeting minutes from an East Glasgow Community the needs of people with a Health Care Partnership meeting (ECHCP) on 30th May, 2008. At the meeting, Labour Councillor Jim learning disability. Coleman, and Mark Feinmann, then East Glasgow CHCP Director, acknowledged the need for either a As your letter to Council leader Matheson states, “new centre” or “new build centre” several times, with the carers and users of the Accord Centre have every Mr. Coleman making a “guarantee” that if the carers reason to feel “legitimately aggrieved” that legacy need a new centre then service will continue. commitments have not been fulfilled. You also said Since then, of course, there has been much that the ‘ideal’ of showcasing this city to the world vacillation and denial, but as you yourself have “cannot be sustained” with such a tawdry outcome for pointed out, indications, if not absolute cast-iron some of the most vulnerable people in Glasgow on the commitments, were made which users and carers at site of the Games.
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