UNITED KINGDOM
Telegraph
By Graeme Paton, Education Editor
16 Dec 2013
A school that repeatedly failed to raise the alarm before teacher Jeremy Forrest abducted one of his pupils has been threatened with takeover by the government, it emerged today.
The Department for Education may intervene in the running of the Bishop Bell C of E School in Eastbourne, East Sussex, because of the “inexcusable” way it handled the child abuse case.
Edward Timpson, the Children’s Minister, said urgent issues needed to be addressed at the state comprehensive to ensure pupils are properly protected.
The warning follows the publication of a damning report that found the school missed repeated opportunities to blow the whistle on inappropriate conduct between the teacher and a teenage schoolgirl.
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