Dear Abbey Hill Academy, Stockton-On-Tees,

Following an incident several years back where one of your male members of staff had inappropriate sexual relations with a vulnerable 17/18 year male old outside school hours, I would like to know what changes, if any, you carry out on your CRB / DBS checks on staff working with special needs children and vulnerable adults?

How often do you check CRB / DBS for the staff?

How often did you check CRB / DBS for the staff before this incident?

Do you offer advice to members of staff against working with pupils outside school, such as direct payment workers?

Do you offer safeguarding advice to parents of pupils seeking to find a direct payment worker from the school?

Yours faithfully,

Peter Smith

Dear Abbey Hill Academy, Stockton-On-Tees,

I haven't received a reply to this request yet, and I should have received it by today at the latest. I trust this is an oversight?

Yours faithfully,

Peter Smith

Dear Sharon,

That's not a problem. Here is the original request I made. Just for your information, you can view this request online at https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...

As it's been an oversight, you don't have to rush it through fast, I don't mind if it take a couple of weeks.

Thank you.

Peter Smith

Dear Abbey Hill Academy, Stockton-On-Tees,

Following an incident several years back where one of your male members of staff had inappropriate sexual relations with a vulnerable 17/18 year male old outside school hours, I would like to know what changes, if any, you carry out on your CRB / DBS checks on staff working with special needs children and vulnerable adults?

How often do you check CRB / DBS for the staff?

How often did you check CRB / DBS for the staff before this incident?

Do you offer advice to members of staff against working with pupils outside school, such as direct payment workers?

Do you offer safeguarding advice to parents of pupils seeking to find a direct payment worker from the school?

Yours faithfully,

Peter Smith

Yours sincerely,

Peter Smith

Dear Sharon,

When the incident happened, the victim was 17/18, and he's now 24. So we're looking at 6/7 years ago.

Obviously the perpetrator was dismissed after the event, but the event wasn't reported immediately. When was the perpetrator dismissed? I'm thinking 2011?

I'm just a little concerned that you can't work this out from the incident, or has there been more incidents than I'm aware of?

Yours sincerely,

Peter Smith

Dear Sharon McHale,

Thank you for your reply.

Yours sincerely,

Peter Smith