A paedophile former deputy head of a private school has been banned from teaching. Andrew Stephen Morris was convicted of making indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of children on August 12, 2021. The 45-year-old, who worked at private school Brambletye School, East Grinstead, between 2017 and 2021, pleaded guilty to the offence and was handed an 18-month community order.
He was also put on the sex offenders’ register for five years from August 12, 2021. A spokesman from the school said none of its pupils were involved. A professional conduct panel of the Teaching Regulation Agency found Morris breached teaching standards and made a recommendation to the Secretary of State for Education that a prohibition order should be imposed with immediate effect.
They said Morris “completely failed” in his duty to protect public trust and confidence in the profession by his “serious and illegal misconduct which was relevant to being a teacher”. They decided it would be proportionate for the prohibition order to be recommended without provision for a review period. Read more: Primary school teacher sacked after pupils took pictures of their genitals in class Sarah Buxcey, on behalf of the secretary of state, accepted the panel’s recommendation and banned Morris from teaching indefinitely.
A report from the TRA panel, just published, said police received information on July 17, 2019, that a user of a website had uploaded a Category C indecent image of a child. Police wer.