School engaged in “retaliatory action” against teacher because of her union activities, employment judge finds
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Judgment in case of Kate Williams is latest development in long-running dispute at school linked to world-famous children’s hospital.
A school went in for “retaliatory action” against a long-serving teacher because of her activities as a union rep, engaging in a “trawl to find anything that could be alleged against her,” a tribunal judge found in the latest development in a high-profile industrial dispute.
The governing body of the Children’s Hospital School at Great Ormond Street and University College Hospital in Camden, north London, was ordered by an employment tribunal judge to re-instate Kate Williams, after provisionally accepting her claim that she had been unfairly sacked for her union activities.
Ms Williams has been at the centre of a bitterly long-running dispute between National Education Union members at the school and its management, with strike action which has gone on since last year reaching its 60th day this week.
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By Warwick Mansell for EDUCATION UNCOVERED
Published: 16 October 2026
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