Scores of misconduct notices will be scrubbed from the government’s website following a campaign to overturn an “irrational anomaly” in the publication of Teaching Regulation Agency decisions.
Since 2012, the Department for Education has posted documents online detailing all findings of wrongdoing indefinitely.
But in cases where teachers were banned from the profession for a finite period, they were able to have decisions removed if they were allowed to work in schools after the prohibition lapsed.
Despite this, those guilty of misconduct for less serious misdemeanours – where panels have been persuaded there is no risk of repeat offending – and not barred from classrooms couldn’t apply to have the verdicts removed from the public domain.
