Jamie Humphries, from Thompsons Solicitors, said: “It is astonishing that the Council thought it right that our client should have to re-apply for the job she was already doing and then thought it right to dismiss her when she scored just below a competency bar of which the Council’s own Redeployment Procedure made no mention. We are happy to have been able to work with UNISON to secure the maximum amount of compensation possible and we hope this goes some way to help our client in dealing with the financial stress that her premature dismissal has cost her.”
Friday, 21 November 2014
Wigan council hit with £72,000 compensation claim for 1 unfair dismissal claim
Incompetence hits Labour run Wigan council again as it's reported by Thompsons Solictors that they have recently dealt with an unfair dismissal claim, taking Wigan council to the cleaners for £72,000.
Jamie Humphries, from Thompsons Solicitors, said: “It is astonishing that the Council thought it right that our client should have to re-apply for the job she was already doing and then thought it right to dismiss her when she scored just below a competency bar of which the Council’s own Redeployment Procedure made no mention. We are happy to have been able to work with UNISON to secure the maximum amount of compensation possible and we hope this goes some way to help our client in dealing with the financial stress that her premature dismissal has cost her.”
Jamie Humphries, from Thompsons Solicitors, said: “It is astonishing that the Council thought it right that our client should have to re-apply for the job she was already doing and then thought it right to dismiss her when she scored just below a competency bar of which the Council’s own Redeployment Procedure made no mention. We are happy to have been able to work with UNISON to secure the maximum amount of compensation possible and we hope this goes some way to help our client in dealing with the financial stress that her premature dismissal has cost her.”
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
Wigan Labour MP slated by Wigan Athletic fans
Labour MP Lisa Nandy has been slated by Wigan Athletic fans
after writing to Dave Whelan to criticise the potential signing of Malky Mackay
as new manager.
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Numerous fans took to twitter to lambast the MP.
Some even put a lot of work on the
desk top publishing software to make their feelings known.
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Sunday, 16 November 2014
Labour Leader of Wigan council blasted by own party over bid to become Mayor of Manchester
See the full story here; http://www.wigantoday.net/news/local/labour-fury-over-county-boris-plan-1-6948878
Lord Smith of Leigh, leader of Labour run Wigan council has been openly criticised by his own local Labour party in his bid to become the first mayor of Greater Manchester.
Apparently Lord Smith failed to notify anyone, including his own Labour Councillors of his agreement with Tory chancellor George Osborne over a Mayor for Greater Manchester.
Criticised as “shocking and anti-democratic” the Labour party even admitted that the borough had massively rejected a Boris-style elected Mayor just two years ago.
Makerfield CLP chairman Sir Ian McCartney said ‘The first most people at the CLP, members and Councillors, knew about this was seeing Peter Smith sharing a platform with the Tory Chancellor on the television news that evening as they made the announcement’, ‘there is something distinctly anti-democratic about the way this is being handled that really does ring the alarm bells’
Wednesday, 5 November 2014
Labour run Wigan council fails to pay its staff the minimum wage
January 2013 – Labour MP Lisa Nandy praises her Labour run Wigan Council for pledging to pay staff a living wage ‘It’s time the Government followed Wigan Council’s example’
Lisa Nandy supported by Wigan Labour Councillors Cllr Lawrence Hunt, Cllr Paul Collins, Cllr Jo Platt, Cllr Mike Crosby, Cllr Mike McLoughlin, and Cllr. Damian Edwardson sign up to the living wage pledge;
Fast forward to November 2014 when it has been discovered that 2 years later not only do Wigan council not pay a living wage but they are receiving complaints from staff and the unions for not paying the minimum wage.
Exactly the same thing happened with zero hours contracts;
Figures released for Female Genital Mutilation in England
The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has reported that in September 2014 alone, 467 female patients treated at acute NHS hospital trusts in England were newly identified as having been subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM).
Read the press release here http://www.hscic.gov.uk/5147
Monday, 3 November 2014
Shocking report shows legal system has failed children in Wigan & Greater Manchester
The report entitled 'Real Voices' by MP Ann Coffey is a sad reflection of the way child sex abuse cases are dealt with in Greater Manchester (including Wigan) in the 21st century.
The report found here, covers many issues but we are highlighting a couple;
The conviction rates in Greater Manchester for sexual offences involving a child under 16 for the six years from 2008 to 2013, included rape, sexual assaults, gross indecency and sexual grooming is appalling.
'Compiled by the House of Commons library, the figures show that the total recorded crime for nine types of sexual offences against children under 16 in Greater Manchester was 12,879, and yet only 2,341 defendants were taken to court of those only 1,078 were found guilty'
There was criticism of Wigan’s safeguarding children’s board, they and other boards didn’t respond to requests for information...
'I wrote to the chairs of the Local Safeguarding Children Boards in February specifically asking about the incidence and trends of CSE in their areas. I was disappointed that only six of the ten LSCBs gave any figures and fewer than six responded to the question about trends in CSE in their area. I understand the reluctance to discuss numbers publically because of the fear of reputational damage, but if the public are to be better informed and if attitudes are to change, we require a greater degree of openness.'
In Wigan there has been an increase in victims in the last twelve months but as per the above no figures have been produced.
The report found here, covers many issues but we are highlighting a couple;
The conviction rates in Greater Manchester for sexual offences involving a child under 16 for the six years from 2008 to 2013, included rape, sexual assaults, gross indecency and sexual grooming is appalling.
'Compiled by the House of Commons library, the figures show that the total recorded crime for nine types of sexual offences against children under 16 in Greater Manchester was 12,879, and yet only 2,341 defendants were taken to court of those only 1,078 were found guilty'
There was criticism of Wigan’s safeguarding children’s board, they and other boards didn’t respond to requests for information...
'I wrote to the chairs of the Local Safeguarding Children Boards in February specifically asking about the incidence and trends of CSE in their areas. I was disappointed that only six of the ten LSCBs gave any figures and fewer than six responded to the question about trends in CSE in their area. I understand the reluctance to discuss numbers publically because of the fear of reputational damage, but if the public are to be better informed and if attitudes are to change, we require a greater degree of openness.'
In Wigan there has been an increase in victims in the last twelve months but as per the above no figures have been produced.
Saturday, 1 November 2014
Furious parents accuse Wigan council of ignoring repeated allegations of neglect and abuse of disabled children in its schools
Disability News Service spoke to six wigan families, all of whom have complained about the way their children have been treated, they said school governors, Wigan council, Ofsted and the Department for Education have all failed to act, over a string of complaints,
Full story here;
http://disabilitynewsservice.com/2014/10/council-ignored-school-abuse-allegations-say-parents/
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