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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