Education Minister slams Teaching Council after sex offender allowed to teach
The Education Minister believes the case of a child sex offender who was able to keep teaching despite multiple warning signs, is not isolated. Barrister Katherine Anderson KC today released a scathing report into the case of Timothy Fisher. She found the Teaching Council should have struck him off a decade before he was convicted of indecency and sex offences against children, most of them under 12. It outlines how Fisher managed to go from school to school without a practicing certificate - which is a criminal offence. Matthew Theunissen reports.
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