Council gagging order leaves Wigan Council open to Corruption charge

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One reason why people like this blog is I expose the illegal and corrupt practises and issues at Wigan Council and now it seems others are following too, including BBC Radio 5 Live who have revealed that Councils in the UK have paid out £226.7 million in gagging orders. These are where Councils pay ex-employees to keep their gobs shut. So in the case of Wigan Council we all say the programme don't blame the council where it was blatant that Wigan Council took the Michael - I wanted a swear word here- and they got a way with it. We had people falling a sleep on the job filmed. People going home at 2pm and coming back in at 4pm just to clock off. These people were not sacked. We saw the Director of some dept Terry Dunn ripping up lawns on a mower prating around. He was sacked but to keep his gob shut he was paid nearly a million quid. Wow!!!! I hear also that the Council wanted to pay less but he said he knew all the skeletons - and he did too - he was right. So they paid him.

We had the bully Linda Fisher whos was paid 000,000's and was again given a gagging order.

There are others that I could mention but the point of the matter is there should not be gagging orders. If someone leaves a council or other employment for that matter if they see something wrong they should be able to report it. Obviously we have people misusing their powers - there are loads of them at Wigan Council - inc Chief executive Donna Hall - but if someone wanted to leave and report it the council just pay them off to keep their gob shut. Whilst that might be very nice for people like Donna Hall and others that mis-use their powers on a daily basis but in the end we will get to the point where it all comes out in years.

In the 90's we had had the situation where children where abused in the care of Wigan Council and the Leader knew about it as it was being reported. But again it's all kept quiet. Recently I asked under FOI for all the memos, letters and other reports to him about the matter. Council response we will not deny or accept they exist. 100% guarantee that he knew why? Because if he didn't know they would release all the details but they won't. Plus after a committee meeting a senior officer agreed to meet me out of the way who gave me all the details and confirmation that the Leader knew. So why didn't he do nothing? The Council also say they cannot comment as there is a legal investigation going on at the minute. But there is people now got papers in court to sue Wigan Council for the abuse they received. What will Wigan council say at the hearings, "Sorry judge we are not talking about it or denying it because there is a legal case is ongoing." They will get the book thrown at them but they won't care because it is not their money that will pay them - it is yours!

The Government should now null and void all gagging orders with regards Council and if their were brave employers too and get all the bad stuff out there what is happening!