A trade union and councillors are demanding the full facts behind the shock closure of a city training centre.

There were angry exchanges over the lack of facts about crisis-hit Metrochange House at the Council's training sub committee. Opposition Tory and Liberal Democrat councillors who asked for the facts behind the crisis were told to stop "post mortems" and look forward.

But after the meeting GMB convenor Ray Alderman, who attended the meeting, said: "Staff have suffered stress and distress."

The union is representing six members of staff from Metrochange House who have submitted official grievances about management to the Council.

Metrochange House closed without warning in October during an investigation by the Council's internal auditors and the Government's Qualification and Curriculum authority.

Councillor David Ward (Idle, Lib Dem) said he would have known nothing about the grievances if he had not read about it in the T&,A.

Coun Hopkins said no-one could deny the hard work which was going on in the institutions.

But he said: "If we sit here as a sub committee and endorse actions we want something in writing.

"I can't believe there has been nothing written between us, the QCA and the awarding bodies. We are getting the glossy picture and not the truth. It supports a cover up."

But chairman Councillor Flo Collard said reports about grievances never went to committees.

Councillor Bob Sowman (Lab, Undercliffe) said: "We don't see there is any progress in these post mortems. I want to sit on a sub committee which has gone forward."

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