An agency teacher who allowed a four-year-old boy to leave school has been cleared. Evangeline Edwin claimed she handed the child over to a responsible adult when the incident occurred in November 2019.
An earlier Teacher Regulation Agency panel hearing heard that the child was later found 10 minutes away from the school by a member of the public. But, in concluding the case, the panel said they believed Evangeline Edwin’s account that she genuinely believed she had released the boy into the care of an appropriate adult and that they believed her actions are not deemed as dishonest, reports Liverpool Echo.
The panel was previously told that the former teacher told school leaders despite the boy being expected at an after-school football club, she “definitely” released him to a woman with red hair. But during that time, the boy managed to cross a series of main roads unaccompanied.
