Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#1
I can't believe that Sharon Shoesmith, who was ultimately responsible for social services regarding little boy Baby P. death, has been awarded a big payout:
"Shoesmith payout criticised
A number of papers carry criticisms of Sharon Shoesmith's £600,000 payout for unfair dismissal. Ed Balls, the former Children's Secretary, says that the payout has "left a bad taste" and that it would "appal people across the country". While, Eric Pickles, the Local Government Secretary, says that Haringey Council is "bankrolling a state-sponsored cover-up" by refusing to reveal the exact terms of the pay-off. "There should be no rewards for failure in the public sector or the private sector. I fail to see how Haringey Council's secretive actions are in the public interest, given the astonishing sum of taxpayers' money involved and the immense public concern and upset at the Baby P scandal. Bank-rolling a state-sponsored cover-up is a massive error of judgment by Haringey Council, and compounds their mishandling of the whole affair," he comments."
Isn't this rewarding failure and also a terrible waste of tax-payers' money ?
Roger
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#2
We need look no further the KCC to see this sort of thing as commonplace.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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#3
She's just part of the middleclass utopian pay and conditions untouchables
That have become parasitical on the public sector.
This lot totally turns the taxpayers off the public sector,
We need to cut at the top and preserve the bottom on affordable terms and condition and stop out sousing to expensive agencies to get around unaffordable unworkable contracts.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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#4
"Isn't this rewarding failure"
Quite simply YES but in view of the previous 2011 court ruling not entirely surprising if only Haringey Council had settled back then.
......."If the current figure claimed is correct, the package is worth more than the minimum suggested by senior judge Lord Neuberger in his ruling, in which he said she was entitled to a minimum of three months' salary, which would have amounted to £33,000, plus pensions contributions"..........
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Guest 1033- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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#5
Keith B., I agree with you 100%. I would just like to add that the private sector is just as bad, and seems to be leading the way for these mad 'golden parachute' payments, probably soon to be seen at a public sector job near you.
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#6
The buck stopped with her. Her department failed therefore she failed. She was sacked and rightly so. She deserves nothing.
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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#7
Well this is true bazza I have seen the top loading in business.
One of the reasons new build housing is so expensive, the loading of fees at the top
To the people who do not actually do the building work
All part of the middle class thinking there entitled to big bucks and perks' for little effort
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#8
Post number 6 - Spot on Terry.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#9
i think we are all agreed about what ms shoesmith deserves but even when someone leaves of their own free will at k.c.c. they get a pay out, seems to be the same in parts of the private sector also.
no wonder reg rattles on about egp's.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
- Posts: 1,418
#10
I blame labour.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#11
I blame the claim culture and the ambulance chasers.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#12
There is some truth in what Brian says, it is often cheaper to do a deal than get chased through the Courts over contractual disputes.
Failure should not be rewarded with cash pay outs.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#13
did brian say that?
My view is that balls at the time took a strong line
something most people would agree with
but sadly our legal system again lets us down
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