Education settlements total £130k

Thursday 13th March 2008, 2:29PM GMT.

EDUCATION says it has spent £130,000 of taxpayers’ money on settling claims made by former senior department employees.

Chief Minister Mike Torode told the States yesterday, in response to an question from Deputy Brian de Jersey, that in the last seven years two senior management staff had taken early retirement and two left in an unexplained manner. Each individual made a claim against the States and were awarded an undisclosed sum of money out of Education’s budget.

Asked by Deputy John Gollop if the terms of these settlements would ever be made public, Deputy Torode’s response was that it was a confidential matter between employee and employer only.