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4 September 2026

Two things must change if we are to keep children safer in schools

Better reporting tools and shared information will help us address a growing number of sexual misconduct cases
Ruth Sparkes Guest Contributor

Founder, Quinly, and MD, EMPRA

4 min read
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A freedom of information request to the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) asked how many teachers have been struck off for sexually motivated conduct, and when.

The TRA confirmed that it holds this breakdown, and refused, saying the figures were already accessible through published decisions.

On review, it admitted that it holds no central record of proven allegations and would need to manually search every published decision to produce the numbers asked for.

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