Ex-S4C boss Amanda Rees claims safeguarding failures in High Court case

A former senior manager at a publicly-funded broadcaster has accused her former employer of failing to safeguard her health, safety and wellbeing. Amanda Rees, 55, has lodged a High Court claim against S4C - the third former executive to do so in the past two years. Former chief executive Sian Doyle recently settled her personal injury claim against the Welsh-language broadcaster and its former chairman Rhodri Williams. S4C's former chief content officer Llinos Griffin-Williams also has a legal claim lodged against the channel. Griffin-Williams was dismissed for gross misconduct after allegedly being drunk and verbally abusing former Wales scrum half Mike Phillips at the 2023 Rugby World Cup. Newyddion S4C understands a settlement is also close to being agreed in that High Court case. In a lengthy statement from Rees's legal representatives Irwin Mitchell, it is alleged that S4C's board and senior management team "failed to offer appropriate oversight of an [organisational change] process that was conducted inappropriately and excessively robustly". Lawyers claim S4C was a "toxic" workplace culture where "bullying took place under the guise of a process of organisational change". F