Educating Greater Manchester headteacher Drew Povey banned from profession indefinitely

A erstwhile headteacher featured connected Educating Greater Manchester has reportedly been banned from the assemblage indefinitely aft a tribunal.

Andrew ‘Drew’ Povey’s schoolhouse was accused of becoming a ‘zoo’ arsenic pupils’ behaviour became ‘dangerous’ after helium refused to exclude them.

The 47-year-old was enforcement caput astatine Harrop Fold School, Worsley, but resigned from the relation aft allegations helium had ‘off-rolled’ 3 students successful an ‘inappropriate way’.

Off-rolling is wherever a pupil is removed from the schoolhouse without being permanently excluded, usually done successful the champion involvement of the instauration alternatively than the child.

The Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) launched a misconduct proceedings aft Povey was accused of regularly sending pupils location and not logging it, which was proven.

Povey’s member Ross, who besides featured connected the Channel 4 amusement arsenic his adjunct head, was besides investigated and banned implicit the allegations.

The accusations included ‘failing to support and/or guarantee that unit maintained close records successful respect of pupil attendance connected 1 oregon much occasions’.

Povey besides ’caused and/or permitted and/or failed to forestall the off-rolling of 1 oregon much pupils’ and ‘failed to support pupil(s) from the hazard of imaginable harm’.

According to the Daily Mail, elder unit subordinate Phil Ince claimed successful a connection that helium heard Povey utilizing walkie-talkies to bid unit that ‘kids beryllium sent home’.

He claimed that unit had considered striking owed to information concerns, adding successful the present nationalist proceeding that ‘from astir astir 2015 it started to deteriorate accelerated and archetypal it would beryllium tiny things but past it became a snowball coming down a hill.’

The 3 off-rolled pupils were removed earlier a ‘certain period’ of the January 2018 consensus, which the TRA argued was ‘some calculation…to marque the schoolhouse look better’.

Two were fixed alternate provisions but the 3rd was considered ‘missing successful education’.

Povey said successful a statement: ‘[For] administrative mistakes that were made involving 2 children, and arsenic the person of that school, I instrumentality afloat responsibility’.

However, helium argued that to reason a ‘deliberate program to off-roll to payment the school’s show arsenic a full is wholly wide of the mark’.

His member was cleared of allegations of amending pupils attendance but each different charges were upheld.

Ofsted unopen the schoolhouse down successful 2018 aft standing it ‘inadequate’, with it aboriginal reopening arsenic Lowry Academy 2021.

Povey announced his resignation the aforesaid year, which came months aft the Channel 4 documentary amusement was filmed.

Educating Greater Manchester was due to aerial a 2nd season but the episodes were pulled aft the schoolhouse was enactment connected peculiar measures.

The TRA stated: ‘The sheet was satisfied that the behaviour of [Povey] amounted to misconduct of a superior quality which fell importantly abbreviated of the standards expected of the profession.

‘Accordingly, the sheet was satisfied that [Povey] was blameworthy of unacceptable nonrecreational conduct.’

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