Teachers: Offences against Children

(asked on 16th July 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 9 June 2014, Official Report, column 63W, on teachers: offences against children, how many teachers have lost their job as a result of having a sexual or other relationship with a student under the age of 16 in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Edward Timpson Portrait
Edward Timpson
This question was answered on 22nd July 2014

The responsibility for the dismissal of teachers rests with local authorities, school governing bodies and academy trusts, who are the employers of teachers in schools. Accordingly, the information requested about the dismissal of teachers is not held by the Department for Education.

Where a teacher has been dismissed, or resigned in the face of dismissal, as a result of serious misconduct all schools have a statutory duty to consider referring the matter to the National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL). In such cases involving child abuse, schools have a duty to refer the teacher to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) who will share the referral with the NCTL.

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