Glasgow City Council - Meets The 'West Wing'
23. As noted above, it was proposed in the Restructure Report that CF's post be made redundant. However, she ended up leaving on the basis of voluntary separation. The reasons are not entirely clear from the documents provided which contain no severance agreement. When asked by one of his subordinates about the basis on which CF was leaving, RA replied by email of 9 March 2021 that
"it's all been a bit hush hush....you know, the West Wing. Anyway she is getting a redundancy but no pension. Unusual? Mais qui. So the figure you need is £95k (i.e. I've applied the cap)..."
It beggars belief that all these senior, highly paid officials could have been party to a process which allowed them all to leave GCC's employment with big golden goodbye payments - including the council's chief executive.
It also beggars belief that the council's senior politicians including the council leader, Susan Aitken, were completely unaware of what was going on - or of the need to replace GCC's senior management team.
RA (Robert Anderson) - was the Council's Head of Human Resources
CF (Carole Forrest) was the Solicitor to the Council, Director of Governance and Monitoring Officer
