Sunday, 14th November, 2021
‘Settlement Agreement’ decision deferred
Monday’s extraordinary meeting of Pembrokeshire County Council (November 8th) was convened to consider a secret report titled “Settlement Agreement.”
This seven-page document was presented only to councillors. The public are pr... Read post →
Pembrokeshire’s county councillors have this afternoon been put on notice of a second extraordinary council meeting in relation to the former chief exec&#...
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Tuesday, 12th October, 2021
‘Holding position’ in pay-off saga
Pembrokeshire councillors have decided to “defer any decision” in the former chief executive’s £95k pay-off saga. Yesterday’s extraordi...
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Thursday, 7th October, 2021
Westley pay-off deemed unlawful
Last year’s £95k pay-off to Pembrokeshire County Council’s chief executive, Ian Westley, has been deemed unlawful in the first formal reports into the scandal.
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Monday’s extraordinary Pembrokeshire County Council meeting (see previous blogpost) has been postponed. Councillors are told that a new date for the Septe...
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Tuesday, 31st August, 2021
First move in Westley pay-off saga
Members of Pembrokeshire County Council are on notice of an extraordinary meeting – the opening salvo in what’s expected to be a long season of fallout from last year’s controversial £95k departure of the authority’s chi... Read post →
Thursday, 22nd July, 2021
Senior council officer disciplinary move
New disciplinary processes to consider misconduct allegations against Pembrokeshire County Council’s most senior officers have been announced. Papers publ...
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Sunday, 4th July, 2021
Probing questions
Early indications suggest some interest has been stirred by my last blogpost on the pending fallout over the cloudy 2020 paid departure of Pembrokeshire County Council’s CEO, Ian Westley.
It’s triggered Milford Haven councillor Steph... Read post →
Monday, 28th June, 2021
Movement and plot-twist in pay-off probe
There’s finally some definitive movement in Audit Wales’ probe into the unexpected and still-not-fully-understood 2020 departure of Pembrokeshire Co...
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Tuesday, 20th April, 2021
Bramble’s gamble?
I was surprised to see that the final candidate in Pembrokeshire County Council’s chief executive recruitment process was openly identified in public papers, published before his appointment.
As this blog previously revealed, when a counci... Read post →
