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[binidj]

Saw this article on Google News which confirmed my suspicions that all was not as simple as it seemed in the recent furore regarding a teacher on the paedophiles register being allowed to teach. Cases like this are not what such registers are for in my opinion, he's clearly not a threat to young people and to lump him in with people who abuse children serves only to reduce the efficacy of the register.

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[quintus.livejournal.com]

To be fair to the guy, the rules for staff that tightened up on the 'position of trust' aspect of the job weren't in place when he started a relationship with a pupil.
Although to my mind, putting him on an equivalent to 'list 99' without putting him on the sex offenders register might have been fairer. It's pretty much a zero tolerence thing now for a member of staff to have relations with a pupil and they're not too chuffed if it's even a (recently) ex-pupil.
The whole system as it stands is too wooly and shot full of inconsistencies.

To my simplistic view, answering 'yes' to "Since turning 18, have you ever had a sexual relationship with a school pupil?" ought to bar you from a teaching post. Ironically of course, the vetting forms omit that sort of thing.