2 Sep
2002
2 Sep
'02
7:27 a.m.
Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org> writes:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/2229196.stm
Thousands of teachers will not be able to take classes at the start of the new term because character checks on them will not have been completed, the government has admitted. [...] Leicestershire was one of the first areas of the country to be affected by the vetting backlog as pupils returned to school last Thursday, with schools being told to turn away teachers who had not yet been checked.
This is in the context of a knee jerk reaction to an apparent murder case of two young girls where one of the two accused worked in the girl's school. -- Steve Mynott <steve@tightrope.demon.co.uk>