The Supreme Court has rejected a relative head teacher’s claim of unjust dismissal and held that failure to reveal her relationship amounted to misconduct.

The Supreme Court has upheld an employment tribunal’s decision that a head teacher’s failure to disclose to the school governors her relationship with a person convicted of making indecent images of children was a sufficient reason for dismissal in Reilly v Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council.

Your head instructor had been under a contractual responsibility to help the school’s governing body in discharging its duty to guard the students; she must have realised that the connection created a possible danger towards the kids in the college, which needed the evaluation for the governors.

Background

R had been appointed as mind teacher of a primary college in 2009. Since 1998 she had maintained a relationship with S, as they are not romantically connected, the connection had been significantly more than a financial one. Continua a leggere