Heads will not roll over Midlothian Council's dismal housing inspection.
The Advertiser has reported that the council's housing management services had been strongly criticised in a Scottish Housing Regulator report.
When asked if there would be any resignations at councillor or official level over the findings, the co
uncil side-stepped the issue.
This is in contrast to the 2007 damning child protection inspection which forced the resignation of social work director Malcolm McEwan and councillor Danny Molloy reliquishing his portfolio.
Innovative programmeMidlothian Council Leader Derek Milligan said: "The child protection inspection carried out two years ago raised issues about child safety whilst this report is critical of some of the practices and procedures in place in the housing service.
"Homelessness and overcrowding cannot be dealt with purely through legislation.
"What is needed is more accommodation and Midlothian Council has put much effort into our innovative council house build programme as well as other initiatives to provide houses for homeless people, eg private sector leasing scheme, buying homes on the open market, shared equity schemes and partnership working with housing associations.
"The report recognises the good performance by Midlothian Council in this aspect.
"We are now working hard to develop and implement an improvement plan to address the issues raised by the inspectors."
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