Dan Peters 10 January 2023

Council pleads guilty to health and safety breach after Ella Henderson death

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Newcastle City Council’s boss has said new procedures have been put in place after the local authority pleaded guilty to a health and safety breach.

Chief executive Pam Smith said the council had pleaded guilty ‘at the first available opportunity’ and ‘fully accepted there were failings in our processes’ after six-year-old Ella Henderson was killed by a falling tree at a school in September 2020.

The council was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive after an investigation.

Ms Smith said: ‘Immediately following the incident, we reviewed our processes and, as a result, we have put in place new procedures to prevent something like this from ever happening again.’

This article was originally published by The MJ (£).

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