[ViridianFan]

Maybe I’ve read the article wrong, but it’s not a good look when you have a whistle blower actually saying they had a tap on the shoulder to say they’d secure one of the posts and that Maitland has effectively dismissed this.  

Surely in a situation like this you’d want someone from outside of the organisation, something they normally seem only too happy. Then you have a whistle blower saying this happen but that someone from bbc studio hr dept say it doesn’t it’ starts to make you think there is some truth and it’s why someone out side of the organisation wasn’t asked because they knew it. And yes these things happen. A place I worked did effectively the same thing. A complaint went in and the academy chain investigated and said it never did despite them being part of the whole thing.