Steve Kinmond sacked for alleged misconduct after investigation

After asking about potential conflict, the report Kinmond said “people ,, because we have worked together for a long time, and people know something,” he said.

“Guardian’s inability to translate his opinion [to] When it starts in January 2023, the risk of conflict shows bad judgment and leadership. ”

In the report, Kinmond details the reaction to the allegations, including rejecting the proposal to explain the relationship. He said that a person can “take care of issues ,,“ This is not my understanding of what they do ”.

In a statement ForerunnerKinmond said that there is a real conflict and “on a small number of occasions” potential conflict.

The investigation found that Kinmond’s legal advice office should not be given the legal advice office of the children’s protector, after he found that he intervened in an inappropriate way for a wwcc for someone named “Person B .. Despite the comprehensive contact between Kinmond and person B, the relationship was not disclosed.

Telephone records given to the investigation, person B application for six weeks during working hours, evenings and weekends for a total of six hours of 22 minutes and 90 text messages and 90 calls appeared.

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“Behavior, the interests and rights of the B person and the interests, reputation and integrity of OCG, the appropriate and appropriate boundaries that could be harmful to the integrity,” he said.

Kinmond rejected the proposal that his intervention in the WWCC issue was inappropriate and said that his relationship with the applicant was completely professional ”and his decision to permit was“ consistent with the requirement of the law ”.

The report also found that the culture of the workplace under Kinmond was “fragile and broken”.

Eastman, the office of the children’s protector is not “a psychologically safe workplace” and “there is a silence about the depth and scope of a workplace culture that does not have psychological security of other employees, and for some of the trauma experience is cooked into culture”.

Investigation Commissioner found that Kinmond’s aspects Leadership, which directly contributes to the OCG, which has a bad workplace culture and cannot develop a psychologically safe workplace environment and eliminates trauma risks by proxy.

A personnel said the investigation: “Since Steve Kinmond became a children’s protector, culture has changed significantly.”

The investigation criticized Kinmond’s decision to convey a copy of a sensitive letter sent to Washington’s staff chief to the entire office of children’s protector employees. On nine correspondence pages of why the office could not meet the current request, Kinmond argued that he should reduce staff or operating costs.

“Guardian said that the reason for distributing the letter to all OCG employees was because it was ‘a right or right to know’. This could not define any source of alleged rights or right to know. There is no OCG policy that provides such a ‘right’.

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