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The ‘Unacceptable’ Conduct Leading to a Teacher’s Lifetime Ban

A 61-year-old teacher has been banned from teaching in England for life after a disciplinary panel found he had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a former sixth-form pupil.     Teacher Banned for Life Over Relationship with Pupil Andrew Brook, a long-time teacher at Queen Elizabeth High School, was found to have “exploited his position…

Whitefield School: Staff members filmed ‘abusing’ children at special school

Staff members at a special school in London were filmed abusing children in so-called ‘calming rooms’,  but have still not been barred from working with children, a BBC investigation has found.   The abhorrent abuse was discovered when 44 memory sticks containing CCTV footage of classrooms were found in a sealed box, when new leadership…