An employee of children's charity the NSPCC who was suspended for sending a "confidential" e-mail to Community Care has been sacked for gross misconduct. Social worker John Power, who is also a union representative for the British Union of Social Work Employees, was suspended in November 2001 on charges of breaching the trust and confidence of the NSPCC by forwarding the contents of an intranet chat site regarding redundancies.
At Power's hearing last week, the NSPCC argued that the site was confidential and did not allow public disclosure. Power said that he had been acting in the best interests of others as a union representative and in the light of the charity's denial of disillusionment within the society. He said his intent was not to harm the NSPCC but to share concerns over realignment.
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