Former NSPCC child protection officer Mick Dunbar arrives at Les Cotils for yesterday’s final tribunal session. He and three other former NSPCC employees are claiming wrongful dismissal. (Picture by Tom Tardif, 1116482)

A REDUNDANCY process followed for NSPCC staff in Guernsey was unfair, an employment tribunal heard yesterday.

Representing the applicants, Advocate Simon Geall said in his closing statement that an organisation as large as the NSPCC should have had the very best processes for dealing with potential redundancy but that it had fallen well short.

The charity’s trustees held a meeting on the day the consultation about the Guernsey office closed.

Advocate Geall said the minutes showed a decision had already been made to shut the centre because they said a pan-island office was being considered and two practitioners would be retained.

NSPCC director of services for children and families Wesley Cuell told the tribunal the wording of the minutes was a mistake and that no final decision on Guernsey had been taken at that time.

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