Treasury ‘materially contributed’ to suicide of personal assistant, coroner finds

Chloe Moffat, 26, killed herself after disciplinary proceedings that coroner in Surrey found be to be flawed The Treasury “materially contributed” to the death of Chloe Moffat, a 26-year-old personal assistant who took her own life after facing disciplinary proceedings, a coroner has found. Anna Crawford also found there was a risk of future deaths within the civil service from flawed handling of disciplinary proceedings. She said she would send a prevention of future deaths report to the head of the civil service, the Treasury, and the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas). Moffat had worked at the Treasury as a personal assistant for almost three years. She “loved her job” and had an “exemplary employment record”, the coroner heard during the three-day hearing. However, she was driven to “distress” by an informal meeting about an anonymous complaint at work. It alleged she had informally shared information about colleagues which she had been privy to during her job. Moffat had denied the allegation. During the disciplinary process, the Surrey coroners court heard, she was not reassured that her job was safe even though she was unlikely to be dismis