AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Caroline Winter
The Australian Education Union (AEU) is worried young men are turning away from teaching as a career option for fear of being falsely accused of child-sex offences.
It thinks issues such as the highly publicised Debelle royal commission in South Australia into handling of school sex abuse cases have not helped.
There has been a decline in male teachers in schools for some years and president of the AEU David Smith says it is understandable why this has happened.
“A number of young men … or men of any age for that matter have been put off, they’ve told us, by the potential litigation that there might be should there be some sort of vexatious, unfounded accusation against them,” he said.
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