The District Auditor for Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council has today issued a public interest report on the circumstances which led to the Council making a compensation payment of over £600,000 to a former employee, Mr Peter Francis.
Mr Francis made claims at an Employment Tribunal that he had been unfairly dismissed, suffered disability discrimination and had also suffered as a result of having 'whistle-blown' about failings in the way Neighbourhood Renewal Funding was used by the Council. The Council reached an out-of-court settlement with Mr Francis in May 2006.