Christine Pratt failed to carry out proper investigation

By Paul Stokes Published: 7:30AM GMT 02 Mar 2010

Christine Pratt was pronounced to have unsuccessful to subject consequential declare or jot down interviews whilst being paid for her services from the open purse.

She was on Durham county councils list of "preferred suppliers" to control enquiries and hope for reports on practice disputes.

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She was called in to inspect the box of Christina Blythe, 51, who was subsequently sacked from her �66,000-a-year managers pursuit with authoritys Youth Engagement Service.

The conference in Newcastle was told that Mrs Pratt had a inhabitant repute for her work at the time, to that the row management commented: "She positively does now".

Edward Legard, Mrs Blythes lawyer, added: "A inhabitant repute for breaching confidentiality."

Mrs Pratt, arch comparison manager of the National Bullying Helpline, is being investigated by the Charity Commission for allegedly going open with the concerns of callers from Downing Street.

On Friday, a head clergyman indicted of "the misfortune box of bullying" ever seen in a workplace by Mrs Pratt had the complaints opposite her dismissed. The General Teaching Council ruled that the box opposite Catherine Maeltbaek was not proved. She had been indicted of creation the hold up of her emissary head "a misery".

In Monday"s tribunal, Kim Jobson, the Durhams head of human resources, pronounced she knew that Mrs Pratt had a assembly with Mrs Blythe since the expert had submitted a grill check for the dual of them as piece of her expenses.

Mr Legard asked: "The actuality that, on the face of it, Christine Pratt unsuccessful to verbalise to consequential witnesses after being asked to verbalise to them by Mrs Blythe thats not something that crossed your desk?"

Mrs Jobson replied: "I couldn"t criticism on that."

Mrs Blythe, a former emissary headteacher, from Durham City, is claiming astray dismissal, alleging victimisation and taste opposite on the drift of her sex and diabetic disability.

She claims her career was wrecked after she lifted a protest about being left out in a government restructuring of the use that once won regard from Tony Blair.

Mrs Blythe has told the judiciary she was left out of a new comparison care group inside of weeks of David Williams receiving over as executive of children"s and immature people services in Mar 2006.

She claims she was bullied and tormented out of her pursuit and was wakeful of an email in between Mrs Jobson and the councils former arch executive, describing her as an "individual who should have been dealt with years ago".

Mrs Blythe pronounced she was repelled when Mr Williams minute a series of disciplinary counts opposite her, accusing her of unsuited control and undermining his authority.

She was dangling on full compensate for thirteen months, during that she was investigated for the legislature by Broadsword and a former comparison investigator in what she claimed was a "witch hunt".

Mrs Blythe was discharged in Jan 2008 after a series of allegations were found opposite her, together with a disaster to reply to a kid insurance issue.

She said: "I hold I have been subjected to a vengeful debate directed at destroying my personal and veteran reputation, as well as deleterious my health."

Mr Williams has deserted suggestions that her diagnosis was down to her gender or disability.

The conference continues.