Background

In our round-up on 12 April we mentioned the case of Victoria Wasteney, who worked for East London NHS Foundation Trust as Head of Forensic Occupational Therapy, mainly at the John Howard Centre – a secure mental health services facility for patients admitted under the Mental Health Act 1983. She had been given a final written warning by the Trust for three charges of misconduct – praying with EN, a Muslim colleague of Pakistani heritage, giving her a book about a Muslim woman who converts to Christianity, and inviting her to church events – though that had subsequently been reduced on appeal to a first written warning.

A transcript of the Employment Tribunal determination has now been posted on the National Secular Society’s website: Wasteney v East London NHS Foundation Trust [2015] ET 3200658/2014. Continue reading →