Claims of homers undertaken by South Lanarkshire College staff at the properties of colleagues and friends in college time and using college materials – including one “of a significant scale” – have been laid out in a leaked report by investigators brought in to probe allegations about conduct within the institution’s ranks.
International accounting, tax, audit and business services firm Azets was commissioned to investigate concerns over potential financial irregularities, “namely that private businesses have been operating from college premises, using college materials and lecturing staff time, and that staff have personally benefitted from the use of college materials and time to build, remodel and repair their homes and other properties.”
The report, leaked to Lanarkshire Live, was commissioned in February 2021 by college principal Aileen McKechnie – who was nine months later dramatically suspended by the board, and remains so, along with interim clerk Brian Keegan.
