A Liverpool teacher convicted of keeping tens of thousands of pounds paid to her in error and failing to notify her former employer has been banned from the classroom.
Danielle Auerbach-Byrne, 53, kept hold of more than £34,000 paid to her more than a year after she left her role as a science teacher at Rainhill High School in August 2017. Miss Auerbach-Byrne did not inform her employer, St Helens Council, and assumed someone would notice the clerical error that led to the payment “and do something about it.”
A Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) hearing was told during this time, Miss Auerbach-Byrne effectively doubled her income. She has now been banned indefinitely from teaching.
