Re: Guilty of not doing a equality report
"So during a pandemic and a crumbling health care system the government appointed someone in haste and are now getting into trouble for not doing a proper equality report."
Appointing someone in haste in an emergency is reasonable (even if it has to be on the basis of "someone we know") with one proviso: the someone appointed in haste should be competent to do the job.
Bingham most certainly was.
Harding most certainly wasn't.
If "equality report" means evidence of an effective process, however rapid, to establish competence before making the appointment then that's fair enough. It's essentially saying the job wasn't done right. The really alarming thing is that whoever made the decision to appoint Harding probably didn't even realise how bad a decision it was - they just looked at the job she'd done previously and not how well she did it.