Publisher's Synopsis
Behaviour that involves an abuse of a teacher's position of trust or a breach of the standards of propriety is regarded as misconduct and may lead to a teacher being barred from the teaching profession. With authors from the General Teaching Council and the National Union of Teachers, this book addresses: How to deal with an allegation of a teacher's sexual misconduct How to judge when a relationship between a pupil and a teacher becomes abusive How to decide what to do about a teacher caught taking drugs in a nightclub How to support an 'outed' gay or lesbian teacher How to decide at what point private matters become public ones How to decide at what point the personal becomes professional How to deal with the media. This book raises the dilemmas and outlines the employment and criminal law in jargon-free language. Leadership training rarely includes exposure to the issues above, but most people working in schools may have to address them at some point in their career. This book will help to prepare for such incidents and draws on real cases as examples.
