Balls was unlawful and due to media pressure
Haringey's former head of child services will learn today if she has won her
court of appeal battle over her sacking in the wake of the Baby P tragedy.
Sharon Shoesmith is challenging a high court ruling clearing the regulator
Ofsted, former children's secretary Ed Balls and the borough that employed her
of acting unlawfully in her dismissal. Her lawyers argue there was "procedural
unfairness" in removing her from the ?133,000-a-year post at Haringey in north
London.
Shoesmith claims that the manner in which she was dismissed was a breach of
natural justice and the result of media pressure. She is asking to have a
damning report by Ofsted quashed, compensation for two years of lost salary,
reinstatement of her pension rights, and a negotiated settlement from
Haringey.
She was sacked in December 2008 after the childcare regulator's report,
ordered by Balls after the Baby P case, exposed failings in her department.
The 17-month-old boy, since named as Peter Connelly, was on Haringey's child
protection register when he died violently at the hands of his mother, Tracey
Connelly, ...
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