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Author:  Brummie Cabbie [ Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:32 pm ]
Post subject:  You've Gotta Be Joking!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8294058.stm
Author:  wannabeeahack [ Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:35 pm ]
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wanna bet she gets a nice cushy job, compo and bigger pension


Great Britain 2009
Author:  Brummie Cabbie [ Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:36 pm ]
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wannabeeahack wrote:
wanna bet she gets a nice cushy job, compo and bigger pension

Great Britain 2009

Unaccountability!!
Author:  wannabeeahack [ Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:56 pm ]
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Brummie Cabbie wrote:
wannabeeahack wrote:
wanna bet she gets a nice cushy job, compo and bigger pension

Great Britain 2009

Unaccountability!!



we have a top legal expert done for employing an illegal
we have harriet harmon driving away from an accident without leaving details
we have MPs blagging 2nd home expenses

do you really think any of em have any sense or accountability?
Author:  captain cab [ Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:59 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: You've Gotta Be Joking!
Brummie Cabbie wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8294058.stm


I think she'll win.

CC
Author:  wannabeeahack [ Wed Oct 07, 2009 2:08 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: You've Gotta Be Joking!
captain cab wrote:
Brummie Cabbie wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8294058.stm


I think she'll win.

CC


I bet she comes out of it BETTER off than pre-Baby P
Author:  gusmac [ Wed Oct 07, 2009 2:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: You've Gotta Be Joking!
captain cab wrote:
Brummie Cabbie wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8294058.stm


I think she'll win.

CC


So do I.

It make me sick.
Author:  Brummie Cabbie [ Wed Oct 07, 2009 2:36 pm ]
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Baby P Chief "will never work again"

Wed Oct 7, 2009 1:11pm BST

LONDON (Reuters) - The former head of children's services at Haringey Council has been financially ruined after being sacked over the Baby P case and will never work again, her lawyer told the High Court on Wednesday.

Sharon Shoesmith is seeking a judicial review of her dismissal without compensation by Haringey in December after a damning report from government inspectors lambasted the management of the London authority's child protection services.

The council had acted a week after Schools Secretary Ed Balls removed her from her post.

Shoesmith, 56, maintains that Haringey, Balls and government inspectors at Ofsted acted unfairly and beyond their powers over her dismissal.

Her lawyer James Maurici said Balls had effectively convicted his client "with no opportunity whatever to be heard," the Press Association reported.

"As matters stand, the simple fact is the claimant will never work again. She has been financially ruined and her health has been very seriously affected," he said as Shoesmith sat beside him in court.

Shoesmith became the focus of public anger after initially defending her department over failings that led to the death of 17-month-old Peter Connelly -- at first only known as Baby P.

The child died in August 2007 after suffering more than 40 injuries during a campaign of abuse at his home, despite being on Haringey's "at risk" register and having had 60 visits from care workers.

Shoesmith applied for a judicial review in March after failing to get councillors to overturn her dismissal, and has also lodged an claim for unfair dismissal with an employment tribunal.

Maurici said Shoesmith had been "deeply shocked and saddened" over the toddler's death.

He said the heart of Shoesmith's case was "whether a public authority -- or public authorities -- can exercise powers to end a person's career without affording them a hearing."

He said that Balls had made it clear that he expected Haringey to get on with what was to be "the mere formality" of dismissing Shoesmith.

He said she had not been allowed to give feedback to inspectors before they delivered their damning report to Balls, contrary to normal Ofsted arrangements.

Ofsted inspectors had believed the minister did not want them to seek her feedback, Maurici said.

But an evidence statement produced last week on Balls' behalf indicated this had not been his intention, the lawyer added.
"The fact is, two public authorities have been at fundamental cross-purposes. As a result, my client's career has been brought to an end in an unfair way."

The hearing is expected to last three days.

Source; uk.reuters.com
Author:  Brummie Cabbie [ Wed Oct 07, 2009 2:40 pm ]
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The former head of children's services at Haringey Council has been financially ruined after being sacked over the Baby P case and will never work again, her lawyer told the High Court on Wednesday.

What a bleeding shame!!!

Baby P will never have the chance to be financially ruined nor be in a position never to work again.
Author:  wannabeeahack [ Wed Oct 07, 2009 3:02 pm ]
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I thought total failure to undertake the tasks you were employed to do was adequate grounds for dismissal


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He told Mr Justice Foskett: "As matters stand the simple fact is the claimant will never work again.

"She has been financially ruined and her health has been very seriously affected."

Mr Maurici accused Mr Balls of "convicting the claimant with no opportunity whatever to be heard".


1. why, Tescos are setting on
2. Not as bad as baby Ps health suffered
3. She was the BOSS, but she FAILED TO DO HER JOB
Author:  grandad [ Wed Oct 07, 2009 4:24 pm ]
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Brummie Cabbie wrote:
my client's career has been brought to an end in an unfair way."



I think she should count herself lucky that it is only her career that has been brought to an end.
Author:  toots [ Wed Oct 07, 2009 4:47 pm ]
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Whilst I'd like to see her dangled by her ankles over the edge of a cliff and a rat chewing at the rope there are procedures that have to be followed.

If these procedures were not followed then she will have a case and if she has a case then I'm inclined to believe that she will win it. I wouldn't be surprised if procedures were not followed as this seems to be evident throughout this sad and sickening episode
Author:  Saltmarket [ Thu Oct 08, 2009 7:21 pm ]
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Reminder:

Sharon Shoesmith didn't batter that little boy to death, his parents did. The woman was in charge of a Council department but the way the media are spinning it you would think it was her who carried out the crime.

In the workplace there are rules and procedures laid down that everyone is supposed to follow. The papers and the news turned this into a with hunt and the politician all too happily caved in to populist pressure and circumvented all the rules. If she failed in her duties that's for her bosses to consider and take accident as they see appropriate. Sacking someone to satisfy some angry mob mentality is a dangerous precedent to set.
Author:  wannabeeahack [ Thu Oct 08, 2009 7:39 pm ]
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She was on £133K

She could always apply for a HC badge
Author:  wannabeeahack [ Thu Oct 08, 2009 9:28 pm ]
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Saltmarket wrote:
Reminder:

Sharon Shoesmith didn't batter that little boy to death, his parents did.

The woman was in charge of a Council department but the way the media are spinning it you would think it was her who carried out the crime.

In the workplace there are rules and procedures laid down that everyone is supposed to follow. The papers and the news turned this into a with hunt and the politician all too happily caved in to populist pressure and circumvented all the rules. If she failed in her duties that's for her bosses to consider and take accident as they see appropriate. Sacking someone to satisfy some angry mob mentality is a dangerous precedent to set.


She was the Boss, she was in charge, it happened "on her watch"

£2550 a week - but she wasnt upto the job, now she says "ill never work again", those at risk will be happy to hear that
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