A teacher at a Liverpool girls' school has been struck off indefinitely after he was found to have tickled a pupil’s hips, put his finger in a student’s mouth and nose and used “inappropriate language” around learners.
Joseph Johnson, 29, a former food technology teacher at the Belvedere Academy in Liverpool 8 has been banned from the classroom after a professional conduct panel into his behaviour at the school between 2018 and 2019. Documents made public following the hearing, held in Mr Johnson’s absence, revealed how he used sexually explicit language around pupils, and on one occasion licked his hand and attempted to place it on pupils’ faces.
The report said Mr Johnson was engaged by the school, initially as an agency member of staff in January 2018 and was subsequently employed on a one-year contract as a teacher of food technology from July 2018 to August 2019.
