A teacher who allowed a four-year-old boy to leave school and claimed she had handed them over to a responsible adult admitted she "didn't want to be" in the classroom.
In November 2019, Evangeline Edwin, who was an agency teacher at Childwall Church of England Primary School, told school leaders that despite the boy being expected at an after school football club, she “definitely” released him to a woman with red hair. The child, known as Pupil A, was later found 10 minutes away from the school by a member of the public.
A Teacher Regulation Agency (TRA) hearing was told that during that time, the boy managed to cross a series of main roads unaccompanied. On the second and final day of the hearing, Miss Edwin took the stand to give her evidence.
