{"id":1847,"date":"2011-01-11T17:23:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T17:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2011-01-12T17:20:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T17:20:47","slug":"school-dinner-lady-unfair-dismissal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1847","title":{"rendered":"School dinner lady &#8211; unfair dismissal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1852\" style=\"width:150px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Carol-Hill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Carol-Hill-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>Carol Hill<\/div>\r\n<\/div>School dinner lady, Carol Hill was suspended from Great Tey primary school, Essex, after telling the parents of a seven-year-old that she had been tied to a fence and hit with a skipping rope by a  group of boys.<\/p>\n<p>She has won her claim for unfair dismissal.<\/p>\n<p>The Employment Tribunal heard that the girl  appeared to have been tied to a playing field fence by her wrist and  then &#8220;whipped&#8221; across the legs with a skipping rope. Deborah Crabb, the  school\u2019s headteacher said the incident was not bullying but an &#8220;inappropriate game&#8221; which went too far.<\/p>\n<p>She sent a letter to the girl\u2019s parent\u2019s saying she has a  minor accident.  However, at a scouts meeting outside school, Hill gave  more details to the girl\u2019s mother and a written statement to the girl\u2019s  family, which was passed to police, and then called a local newspaper to tell of her suspension.\u00a0\u00a0 She was dismissed by governors after  telling a local newspaper what had happened to her.<\/p>\n<p>The headteacher said that Hill was sacked for committing the &#8220;offence&#8221; of &#8220;going to the press&#8221;. The tribunal panel would consider whether Hill should be compensated and reinstated, at a  &#8220;remedies hearing&#8221; next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carol Hill School dinner lady, Carol Hill was suspended from Great Tey primary school, Essex, after telling the parents of a seven-year-old that she had been tied to a fence and hit with a skipping rope by a group of boys. She has won her claim for unfair dismissal. The Employment Tribunal heard that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1853,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions\/1853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}