It has been reported in the Guardian that teachers won record amounts of compensation last year after suffering accidents, injuries or assaults at school, figures show. One secondary school teacher was awarded more than £382,000 after his arm was caught in a filing cabinet, and another won £240,000 after working in a poorly ventilated workshop [...]
teachers won record amounts of compensation last year after suffering accidents, injuries or assaults at school
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Department for Education update guidance for teachers
October 17, 2012 from Leave a Comment
The Department for Education have update its statutory guidance for teachers (1st October 2012) summarised below The guidance This is statutory guidance from the Department for Education. This means recipients must have regard to it when carrying out duties relating to handling allegations of abuse against teachers and other staff. What legislation does this guidance relate [...]
Anonymity rules comes into force
October 2, 2012 from Leave a Comment
Members of the public, the media and the police are to be banned from next automatically naming teachers in cases of alleged abuse. The power, enshrined in the 2011 Education Act, has been introduced to protect innocent teachers against malicious claims from pupils and parents, but critics fear that the legislation has gone too far and [...]
Majority of allegations made against teachers in Wales are either unfounded, false or malicious
March 1, 2012 from Leave a Comment
Over half of accusations made against teachers and teaching assistants by pupils in Wales turned out to be false, malicious or unfounded. Figures for the last five years obtained by BBC Wales found 55% of 312 allegations were later dropped. Teaching unions say that to try to deal with the problem, more action should be [...]
Teachers accused of crime have legal right to anonymity up to point of being charged with an offence
November 27, 2011 from Leave a Comment
Teachers accused of crime are given lifelong anonymity A Press release issued by the PA on the 17 November 2011 states Proposals to give lifelong anonymity to teachers accused of committing criminal offences against children at their schools have become law after the Education Act 2011 received Royal Assent. It means that teachers have become [...]
Teacher waits five years to clear name
October 18, 2011 from Leave a Comment
This article appeared in the Daily Telegraph on the 20th October (here) When Alison Addison was accused of abusing the special-needs children in her care, she thought she would quickly be cleared. The claims – that she had physically abused the children, used racist words and had sexual intercourse with the caretaker in her school’s [...]
Nearly half the allegations made against teachers are unsubstantiated or unfounded
October 16, 2011 from 2 Comments
This article appeared in the Daily Mail (here) Nearly half the allegations made against teachers are malicious, unsubstantiated or unfounded, according to a Government study. The Department for Education survey shows that only three per cent of investigations resulted in a police caution or court conviction for the teacher. Schools Minister Nick Gibb said the [...]
Forthcoming TV programme on ITV
October 11, 2011 from 1 Comment
Thursday 13th October on ITV1 from 7.30pm to 8pm Taking Control of the Classroom: With the government promising to reassert the authority of teachers in the classroom, Fiona Foster meets an assistant head who was wrongly accused of assault when he tried to discipline a pupil. The programme conducts a special survey in conjunction with [...]
Assistant head cleared of assaulting girl, 15, reveals his six months of hell ‘hiding out in a caravan’
September 19, 2011 from Leave a Comment
Assistant head cleared of assaulting girl, 15, reveals his six months of hell ‘hiding out in a caravan’ For William Stuart, it became a ritual. Every morning, he would leave his neat semi-detached home and take refuge for the day in a caravan at a nearby park. He could not bear to face questions from [...]
primary schoolteacher has been banned from working for allowing children to hug him
September 19, 2011 from Leave a Comment
This report appeared in the Daily Telegraph on the 18th September A primary schoolteacher has been banned from working for allowing children to hug him. Mark Pullinger, 41, was also accused of playing with a pupil by swinging her around by her arms. Following complaints from colleagues, he was told that he had “failed to [...]