Whistleblower Christine Scott told councillors on Thursday that she and others who helped expose misconduct at the local authority believe an independent review has ‘suppressed the truth’ and failed to hold senior managers to account for malpractice.
Speaking on behalf of the group, Ms Scott claimed the Tanner reports into the city’s organisational culture ‘barely touched the sides’. The damning claims came as councillors discussed the implementation of 50 recommendations made by the top QC.
Ms Tanner's inquiry into ex-council employee Bell exposed the senior social worker as a prolific abuser who was protected by colleagues who “looked after their own” for three decades prior to his death in 2020.
The shocking findings sparked the probe which concluded there is "not a universally positive, open, safe and supportive whistle-blowing and organisational culture for the raising of and responding to concerns of wrongdoing within the City of Edinburgh Council".
Several recommendations in Tanner's report are aimed at preventing any "old boys' networks" like the one blamed for protecting serial abuser Sean Bell.
But Ms Scott stated that a number of senior managers at the centre of the Bell case and the mishandling of abuse complaints at Castlebrae High had been ‘allowed to leave their jobs with pensions intact’ while it’s claimed some still work at the council.
Ms Scott raised serious concerns...
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