Leading head John Tomsett to face conduct panel

Founder of Headteachers’ Roundtable is to face a Teaching Regulation Agency hearing next week
16th October 2018, 6:15pm

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Leading head John Tomsett to face conduct panel

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A founding member of the Headteachers’ Roundtable is to appear before a teacher conduct panel.

John Tomsett, headteacher of Huntington School, near York, who received a visit by education secretary Damian Hinds at his school in July, is to face a disciplinary hearing next week.

The hearing will take place before a professional conduct panel of the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) in Coventry. 

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The reasons for the hearing have not been made public but relate to his former employment at a school in Eastbourne, according to the TRA website.

Mr Tomsett has taken a leave of absence from his school in York. He entered the teaching profession 29 years ago and has been a headteacher for 14 years.

The Headteachers’ Roundtable is a non-party political group operating as a thinktank, exploring policy issues from a range of perspectives.

During his visit in the summer, Mr Hinds was said to have seen how Huntington’s research school played a role in the York Schools and Academies Board, which is a collaboration between the city’s state schools and academies.

In recent years Mr Tomsett has been a regular writer for Tes.

City of York Council said that because it is a regulatory process, it would inappropriate for it to comment at this time.

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