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Children at Risk in Schools

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Propoganda about safety risk for education otherwise than at school

 

Home educators are currently subject to enormous amounts of propoganda and "spin" suggesting that education otherwise than at school is a high risk area for children. * Unprecedented effort is being put into forming "evidence" that a child not in a school is a child at severe risk of undetected abuse.

So far the propoganda supplied by detractors has not produced any real evidence, only hearsay and drama, that current levels of state regulation of education are not adequate to manage any concerns about children who happen to receive their education otherwise than at school.

 

 *NASWE Supplementary info to EHE guidelines consult response

 

*London Safeguarding Network

 

 

This sort of propoganda is however not a new thing. Sadly home educators have previously had to challenge erroneous remarks in the press linking child abuse with home education. In March 2004, The Association for Education Welfare Mangement (AEWM) asked the then Children's Minister, Margaret Hodge, for the power to check up on home educators because, they alleged, "Some parents claim they are educating their children at home to hide the fact they are abusing them".

 

However, Jenny Price, general secretary of the AEWM later apologised for misinforming the public.

 

Truth about safety risk in school

 

The links below serve as a reminder that it is no coincidence that many parents find education otherwise than at school a much safer place than school for their children. It took just a couple of hours to find and upload over 60 of these examples of severe abuse in schools that came to court and were allowed to be reported - imagine what a thorough search and unrestricted reporting would reveal about the places that NASWE and the London Safeguarding Network would have us use to protect our children.

 

So far a quick search of the literature to find any meaningful research into the amount of abuse that goes on in schools or the overall safety of schools, has revealed nothing meaningful. 

 

Tackling Violence in Schools: A Report from the UK states: "While violence in schools is reported anecdotally in the media and on telephone helplines such as ChildLine, there is no central register of violence in schools statistics available from either the DfEE (personal communication) or the Home Office (personal communication). Currently, the best indicators for violence in schools are available in the form of school exclusion statistics from the DfEE and DENI, pupil/teacher and parent/teacher violence statistics taken from the British Crime Survey (1999) and prevalence rates of pupil/pupil bullying suggested by independent research."

 

 

 

Evidence that families, not schools, are the real "safety net". 

 

The BBC's Newsround team surveyed 1000 children aged between 6 and 12 years and found that "In a crisis, 76% would turn first to their mother for help, 11% would choose their father and 2% would go to a teacher"

 

 

In a study reported by the NSPCC, 1979 young people aged 18 -24 years, were interviewed about their childhood experiences. They reported many sources of adult support and advice within their families and communities. 69% said they would turn to their mother with their problems or dilemmas, 40% to their father and 21% to a teacher (the total of greater than 100% indicates some children reported more than one source of help).

 

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Please add to this page links to any relevant research .

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In Government

 

DCSF (Previously DfES)

 

A minister who allowed a registered sex offender to work as a PE teacher will keep his job.

 

Knives in schools

 

At the end of "Be Safe" weapons awareness courses, pupils are asked if they would like to hand in their blades, or leave knives under their seats. Hundreds have been left behind at the courses which have been running mainly in London and surrounding counties since 1998.

  

England

  

 

Bedfordshire

 

A former music teacher who persuaded girls to perform sex acts over the internet has been jailed for two years and eight months.

 

Berkshire 1

 

A history teacher has been found guilty of 16 counts of indecent assault involving five pupils in the 1990s.

 

Berkshire 2

 

A former teacher at Eton College is facing jail for child pornography offences.

 

Berkshire 3

 

A former history teacher who tried to groom what he thought was a 12-year-old girl on the internet has been given a 12-month suspended sentence.

 

Bristol 1

 

A teacher who downloaded child pornography on to a computer he later donated to his school has been sentenced to a three-month community rehabilitation order.

 

Bristol 2

 

A Bristol teacher, found guilty of filming young girls in their underwear, has escaped a jail sentence.

 

Buckinghamshire

 

A games teacher has been jailed for four years after he admitted committing a sex act on a pupil.

 

Cambridgeshire

 

A Football League referee (and teacher), who admitted e-mailing sexually explicit images to a 14-year-old boy, has been given a three-year community order

 

Cheshire

 

Teacher David Mulvey, 51, who taught in Crewe, Cheshire has been told he faces a jail term after being convicted of using his computer to access child pornography. 

 

Cornwall 1

 

A Cornish music teacher was jailed after taking advantage of a teenage pupil who had a crush on him.

 

Cornwall 2

 

A retired deputy head teacher from Cornwall has been found guilty of indecent assault against 23 small boys.

 

Devon 1

 

A primary school teacher found with nearly 2,000 indecent images of young children has been jailed for two years.

 

Devon 2

 

A former boarding school teacher has been jailed for 10 years and nine months after being convicted of 13 sexual offences against children

 

Devon 3

 

A teacher jailed for sexually abusing boys at schools in Wales and Devon has begun an appeal against his conviction. Brian Ely, 71, was sentenced to 15 years at Exeter Crown Court in 2001 for 26 sex offences against boys dating back 40 years.

 

Devon 4

 

A school teacher from Plymouth has admitted making and processing indecent images of children on his computer.

 

Devon 5

 

A female teacher has been suspended from a Devon school after allegations of an inappropriate relationship with a teenage pupil.

 

Dorset 1

 

A teacher took more than 350 photos of boys' bottoms in his flat and kept a pair of trunks sealed in a bag for more than 12 years, a court heard.

 

East Yorkshire 1

 

A teacher has been jailed for abusing his position of trust by having sex with three schoolgirls.

 

East Yorkshire 2

 

A teacher has been jailed for 16 months after admitting having an affair with a 14-year-old pupil.

 

East Yorkshire 3

 

An art teacher faces a lengthy prison sentence after he admitted having sex with a 15-year-old pupil.

 

Essex

 

Helen Da Costa, a former primary school teacher, was jailed for five years.

 

Gloucestershire 1

 

The head teacher of a special needs school who pleaded guilty to cruelty against a pupil has been banned from teaching for 18 months.

 

Gloucestershire 2

 

A teacher who was Head of IT at a comprehensive school has been ordered to register as a sex offender after downloading more than 100 images of child pornography.

 

Gloucestershire 3

 

A teacher who sexually abused a teenage girl over four years has been jailed for two years.

 

Gloucestershire 4

 

A teacher was jailed for two-and-a-half years for having an affair with a sixth-former at a school in Cheltenham.

 

Gloucestershire 5

 

A music teacher has been jailed for having sex with one pupil and taking naked pictures of another.

 

Greater Manchester 1

 

A teacher from Greater Manchester who downloaded more than 150 child pornography images has avoided being sent to jail.

 

Greater Manchester 2

 

A 29-year-old teacher who sent sexually explicit Christmas cards to pupils and stole items of their clothing from the school has been jailed for 14 months.

 

Hampshire 1

 

A senior teacher at a Hampshire school has admitted a series of sex charges committed against a schoolgirl.

 

Hampshire 2

 

A teacher who abused children for over 30 years and kept illegal pornographic images has been jailed for three years.

 

Hampshire 3

 

A former teacher at a top independent school who admitted downloading child pornography on to his home computer has been sentenced to 12 months community rehabilitation, narrowly missing a jail term.

 

Hampshire 4

 

A teacher has been charged with having indecent images of children and abusing a position of trust.

 

Hertfordshire

 

A 54-year-old former geography teacher from Hertfordshire who photographed a colleague molesting a teenage boy has been jailed for 20 months.

 

Kent

 

An 80-year-old retired teacher and Baptist minister has been jailed for two years for molesting five girls.

 

Lancashire

 

A teacher who abused a nine-year-old boy during a PE lesson has been jailed for 12 months at Preston Crown Court.

 

Leicestershire

 

A former piano teacher from Leicestershire has been found guilty of indecently assaulting a schoolboy.

 

Lincolnshire 1

 

A Lincolnshire man [teacher] who sexually assaulted two boys has been jailed for six years.

 

Lincolnshire 2

 

A former teacher who admitted having thousands of child pornography images has been jailed for two years.

 

London

 

A former RE and English teacher has been jailed for six months for possessing child pornography.

 

London - Haringey

 

A teacher has been charged with indecently assaulting a girl and making and possessing child pornography.

 

Merseyside

 

A special needs teacher who admitted holding a child's head under water and smearing spaghetti on the faces of children has been spared jail.

 

Norfolk 1

 

A former head teacher who abused pupils at a special school for more than a decade has been given a two-year prison sentence suspended for two years.

 

Norfolk 2

 

A former teacher from Norfolk has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for exposing himself to a young girl.

 

Norfolk 3

 

The former deputy head of a school in Norfolk has been jailed for more than five years after admitting sexual offences against a teenage girl.

 

North Yorkshire 1

 

A primary school teacher has been jailed for six-and-a-half years for sexually abusing young boys.

 

North Yorkshire 2

 

A former school teacher has been jailed for six years after being convicted of indecently assaulting young girls.

 

Northamptonshire

 

A teacher who indecently assaulted two boys after sending them up to 1,500 text messages has been jailed for four years.

 

Northumberland 1

 

The former music teacher was found guilty at Newcastle Crown Court on 23 January of preying on four youngsters during the 1970s and 1980s.

 

Northumberland 2

 

A former art teacher convicted after a long-running inquiry into sex abuse at North-East children's homes is to have his case heard by the Court of Appeal.

 

Shropshire 1

 

A PE teacher has been sentenced to two years in jail for having sex with a 15-year-old schoolgirl.

 

Shropshire 2

 

A female teacher has been jailed for two years after admitting to having sex and taking drugs with a 15-year-old schoolboy.

 

Staffordshire

 

A teacher and former Childline charity volunteer has walked free from court after being sentenced for seven sex offences.
 
 
A former teacher from Suffolk who looked at more than 200 indecent images of children on school computers has been given a three-year rehabilitation order.

 

Sussex 1

 

A teacher has been found guilty of 10 charges of sexually abusing pupils at a primary school in West Sussex.

 

Sussex 2

 

A deputy head teacher who groomed a 14-year-old girl for sex after he posed as a schoolboy on an Internet chatroom has been jailed for four years.

 

Sussex 3

 

A former PE teacher and cricket coach from Sussex has admitted distributing child pornography on the Internet.

 

Sussex 4

 

A trainee maths teacher whose collection of child pornography was discovered by a pupil, has been jailed for three and a half years.

 

Teesside

 

A paedophile who fantasised about killing a child has been given a six-year-jail sentence.

 

Warwickshire 1

 

A former vicar and a paedophile rights campaigner have been jailed after a huge child pornography library was uncovered... O'Carroll worked as a teacher in Coventry in the 1970s and founded the now defunct Paedophile Information Exchange.

 

Warwickshire 2

 

A teacher jailed for having sexual relations with two 16-year-old pupils has failed to win a cut in his jail term.

 

West Midlands

 

A teacher who admitted putting a camera in a school's female toilets has been given a three-year probation order.

 

West Yorkshire

 

A deputy head who carried out a series of sex attacks on young girls has been sent to crown court for sentencing.

 

Wiltshire 1

 

Peter Hamilton-Leggett of Yelverton, Devon, was jailed for eight years at Swindon Crown Court after admitting 54 sex offences against boys, some as young as eight.

 

Wiltshire 2

 

A former house master and mathematics teacher, admitted two counts relating to the possession of indecent pictures of children.

 

 

Northern Ireland

 

Belfast 1

 

A former teacher awarded an OBE for services to young people has been jailed for indecent assault.

 

Belfast 2

 

A music teacher who downloaded 150 videos of children being abused has been jailed for a year.

 

County Antrim

 

A teacher who formerly worked at a County Antrim grammar school has been given a one year suspended jail sentence after pleading guilty to charges linked to computer child pornography.

 

County Down

 

A County Down schoolteacher has been jailed for one year for indecently assaulting a 15-year-old boy he met through the Internet.

 

  

Scotland

 

Ayrshire

 

Two men were found guilty of physically and sexually abusing children in their care at Kerelaw, which looked after children with significant emotional, social and behavioural problems.

 

Tayside 1

 

An assistant rector who downloaded hundreds of child pornography pictures has been struck off the register of the General Teaching Council of Scotland.

 

Tayside 2

 

A school bus driver who drugged and then sexually abused children over a period of six years has been jailed for five years.

 

Wales

  

Ceredigion

 

A judge has sentenced a Ceredigion school teacher to a three-year sex offender's programme after he indecently assaulted a teenage pupil.

 

Clwyd

 

An ex-teacher who was sent to prison for downloading child pornography, has been jailed again for re-offending.

 

 

 

 

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