The hearing at the Municipal Chambers in Dumfries was told the Ethical Standards Commissioner (ESC) felt Wood had created a “negative narrative” around the chief executive and refuted claims the SCS was being used to silence councillors.<\/p>\n
“The framework is not designed to preclude proper scrutiny of performance,” said Angela Glen, representing the ESC.<\/p>\n
She said his criticism could have been made “in private and via the proper channels”.<\/p>\n
Roberts told the hearing the she had acted quickly and within established procedures to ensure the council avoided a “significant service failure”.<\/p>\n
“We had a matter of days to be able to secure services,” she said.<\/p>\n
She said Wood’s comments in his article and subsequent interviews had left her feeling “disappointed, frustrated and undermined”.<\/p>\n
“I felt that the respondent was questioning my professionalism, undermining my authority and suggesting I was not following due process,” she said.<\/p>\n
Roberts told the hearing that had an impact on her own well-being and her family and had been “very demoralising” for herself and other staff.<\/p>\n
An impact statement said it had affected her confidence in her role and she felt her “integrity, honesty and character” had been questioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The hearing at the Municipal Chambers in Dumfries was told the Ethical Standards Commissioner (ESC) felt Wood had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-771991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}