Agenda and minutes

There were no apologies for absence.

Members are asked to declare any interests they may have in the business to be discussed.

No declarations of interest were made.

PRIVATE SESSION

AGENDA

MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO NOTE

Under the law, the Committee is entitled to consider certain items in private. Members of the public will be asked to leave the meeting when such items are discussed.

The Committee is recommended to consider the following item in private on the grounds that it contains ‘exempt’ information, as defined by the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985, and consequently that the Committee makes the following resolution:-

“that the press and public be excluded during consideration of the following item in accordance with the provisions of Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended, because it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information, as defined in Paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act, namely information relating to an individual, and taking all the circumstances into account, it is considered that the public interest in maintaining the information as exempt outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information”.

RESOLVED:

            that the press and public be excluded during consideration of the following item in accordance with the provisions of Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended, because it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information, as defined in the paragraph detailed below of Part 1 of Schedule 12A of the Act, and that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information:

Paragraph 1

Information relating to any individual

The Appellant’s Statement of Case and the Management’s Statement of Case are attached for all parties, along with a collection of background and general information.

The Committee considered an appeal against dismissal from employment with the Leicester City Council under the Disciplinary Policy.

Caroline Tote, Director for Social Care and Early Help and Nicola Graham, HR Team Manager were present as advisors to the Committee.

The management representative was Ruth Lake, Director, Adult Social Care and Safeguarding. Ruth Barr (HR Advisor) was present as HR Advisor to management.

The appellant was present and represented by Steve Joyce (Unison).

There were no witnesses.

The Committee considered the written submissions and discussed and took into account the evidence from management and the appellant in coming to its decision.

RESOLVED:

That the appeal against dismissal be rejected and the management’s decision to dismiss the appellant be upheld.

Reasons:

Having considered the representations the Committee were unanimous in their view that the allegations amounted to gross misconduct and that management were correct in their decision to dismiss the appellant.

The Committee was also of the unanimous view that the City Council’s Disciplinary Policy had been fairly applied by management and as a result the committee upheld management’s decision to dismiss.

There being no other business the meeting closed at 12.15pm.