‘No charges will be brought against former staff at a school in Surrey where Jimmy Savile abused girls.’
BBC News, 4th December 2014
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‘When 16-year-old Will Cornick admitted murdering the schoolteacher Ann Maguire, the reaction was one of shock and bewilderment.’
BBC News, 3rd December 2014
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‘The headmaster of an elite London school where the US paedophile William Vahey abused more than 60 boys dismissed a complaint about his worrying conduct on a field trip as “unfair pressure” by “vindictive parents”, an independent report in to his criminality has revealed.’
The Guardian, 26th November 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Ofsted is in urgent need of independent review in light of concerns about its objectivity and reliability, local government leaders have said.’
BBC News, 31st October 2014
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‘A Cardiff deputy head teacher who secretly filmed pupils going to the toilet has had his “manifestly excessive” five-year jail term cut to four by the Court of Appeal.’
BBC News, 28th October 2014
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‘Failings to fully investigate a teacher who took indecent photographs of pupils were “an accident waiting to happen”, an ex-child protection chief has said.’
BBC News, 1st October 2014
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‘Police have been accused of a series of failings that left a deputy headmaster free for two years to secretly film pupils undressing using cameras hidden in an Essex school’s changing rooms. Scores of indecent images of boys aged nine to 12 were found at the home of Martin Goldberg, 46, a maths teacher at Thorpe Hall school in Southend, who took his own life this month after being visited by detectives.’
The Guardian, 30th September 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A public investigation is to be launched into how a paedophile teacher, William Vahey, was able to drug and abuse at least 60 children at the £25,000-a-year Southbank International School in London.’
The Guardian, 27th September 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A PE teacher who had sex with a pupil she taught at an all-girls private school has been jailed for 15 months.’
BBC News, 5th September 2014
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‘A deacon convicted of sexually abusing 10 boys at a Greater Manchester school has been jailed for nine years.’
BBC News, 28th August 2014
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‘A former assistant head teacher who kissed and hugged a pupil has been banned from teaching.’
BBC News, 28th August 2014
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‘A teacher has been banned indefinitely after he swore at pupils, punched them and called them offensive names.’
BBC News, 21st August 2014
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‘Hayley Southwell, 27, given a suspended sentence after her victim refuses to co-operate with police.’
Daily Telegraph, 12th August 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Southbank International, a £25,000-a-year private school failed to adequately address concerns raised internally about the 64-year old American, according to a review.’
Daily Telegraph, 31st July 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A teacher who set his mobile phone to record in a secondary school’s toilets has been banned from the profession for life.’
BBC News, 31st July 2014
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‘A teacher who punished pupils by making them put ice cubes in their underwear has been banned from teaching.’
BBC News, 28th July 2014
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‘A teacher who put his arm around a pupil’s neck while holding a knife and jokingly threatened to kill him for giving a wrong answer has been banned from the classroom for two years.’
The Guardian, 17th July 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A major inquiry has been launched into how historical allegations of child abuse were handled. The UK’s National Archives contain some appalling examples of abuse at children’s homes and approved schools from decades past.’
BBC News, 11th July 2014
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‘A former deputy headmaster is given a lifetime teaching ban for an “inappropriate sexual relationship” with a 15-year-old boy.’
BBC News, 24th June 2014
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