An unqualified teacher at a Liverpool special school exchanged text messages with a boy telling him that he missed him, bought him a football shirt and took him on unauthorised days out.
Terrence Dykes engaged in an “inappropriate relationship and/or failed to maintain appropriate boundaries” with a pupil at Ernest Cookson School, West Derby, according to a Teaching Regulation Agency report. Mr Dykes was said to send text messages to the child saying he missed him and wanted to take him away on an Easter break.
He has been banned indefinitely from teaching following a hearing held in his absence last month. Mr Dykes did not respond to the allegations.
