{"id":143512,"date":"2025-05-30T07:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T07:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/143512\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T07:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T07:26:09","slug":"logan-park-high-school-theft-handled-as-employment-matter-without-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/143512\/","title":{"rendered":"Logan Park High School theft handled as &#8217;employment matter&#8217; without police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/4MW7YSZ_copyright_image_225746\" width=\"1050\" height=\"656\" alt=\"Logan Park High School\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nThe missing funds were recovered, along with legal and accounting costs.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Tess Brunton\n<\/p>\n<p>A Dunedin high school didn&#8217;t go to the police after almost $365,000 was misappropriated by a staff member more than five years.<\/p>\n<p>An external accountant first discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/562568\/almost-365-000-misappropriated-by-one-person-at-dunedin-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Logan Park High School was missing funds<\/a> last year. The money was taken between 2019-24.<\/p>\n<p>The school&#8217;s board of trustees said it sought legal and accounting advice, and was told it was best treated as an employment matter, as it was one individual acting in isolation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our priority was to recover the funds in full and as quickly as possible, while ensuring the matter was handled appropriately,&#8221; the board said.<\/p>\n<p>The missing funds were subsequently fully recovered, along with legal and accounting costs, and a review was conducted.<\/p>\n<p>The board said the person was no longer employed by the school and they had made changes to ensure this wouldn&#8217;t happen again.<\/p>\n<p>The high school emailed parents on Thursday to tell them what had happened, acknowledging that might come as a surprise, but the financial risk had been eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>The board declined to comment further on the personal details, saying it was an employment matter.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Education said it was aware of the matter and would work with the school to better understand the processes they followed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, <b>a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The missing funds were recovered, along with legal and accounting costs. Photo: RNZ \/ Tess Brunton A Dunedin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3092],"tags":[1816,51,9409,897,12,196,10975,10973,10974,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-143512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-current-affairs","11":"tag-jobs","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-podcasts","14":"tag-public-radio","15":"tag-radio-new-zealand","16":"tag-rnz","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114595599881213916","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}