Minutes of meeting
Renfrewshire Council · 23 June 2026
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Minute of Special Meeting Personnel Appeals and Applied Conditions of Service Appeals Panel. Date Time Venue Tuesday, 23 June 2026 09:30 Corporate Meeting Room 1, Council Headquarters, Renfrewshire House, Cotton Street, Paisley, PA1 1AN Present Provost Lorraine Cameron, Councillor Audrey Doig, Councillor Edward Grady, Councillor Neill Graham, Councillor Lisa-Marie Hughes, Councillor Iain McMillan and Councillor Iain Nicolson. In Attendance P Wilson, Operational People Partner and E Currie, Senior Committee Services Officer (both Finance & Resources). Declarations of Interest and Transparency Statements There were no declarations of interest or transparency statements intimated prior to the commencement of the meeting.
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1 Appointment of Chair Councillor Hughes, seconded by Councillor Nicolson moved that Councillor Audrey Doig chair this meeting of the Personnel Appeals and Applied Conditions of Service Appeals Panel. This was agreed unanimously. DECIDED: That Councillor Audrey Doig chair this meeting of the Personnel Appeals and Applied Conditions of Service Appeals Panel. Exclusion of Press and Public The Appeals Panel resolved that the press and public be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the following item of business as it was likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted, that if members of the press and public were present, there would be disclosure to them of exempt information as defined in paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 7A of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. 2 Education and Children's Services Consideration was given to an appeal submitted by an employee of Education & Children’s Services against a final written warning. The appellant appeared together with A Bamford (EIS) in relation to the appeal. G McLaughlin, Head of Education (Education & Children’s Services) and E Chisholm, People Adviser (Finance & Resources) represented management. The appellant’s representative presented the appellant’s case. Thereafter, the management side and members of the Panel had an opportunity to question the appellant’s side and evidence presented. G McLaughlin presented the management case and called J Colquhoun, Education Manager as a witness. Thereafter, the appellant’s side and members of the Panel had an opportunity to question the management’s side and evidence presented. Both sides summed up their position and then withdrew from the meeting to allow the Panel to consider the matter and reach a decision. Both parties were recalled and advised by the Chair that the Appeals Panel had agreed that the appeal be rejected. DECIDED: That the appeal be rejected.