Fears over teacher safeguarding investigations in Scotland
Concerns have been raised that some misconduct allegations against teachers in Scotland are not being properly investigated.
He said: "There is a gap in the current regulatory arrangements for safeguarding and child protection which means that although teachers are regulated by the GCTS it is employers who are considered in the frontline and no-one is regulating the employers. "We are concerned that the current national child protection guidance is overly focused on harm caused in a family environment and does not sufficiently cover protection from harm in other settings, including in schools.
The GCTS only passed on one of the 47 referrals to the police but the regulator pointed out it did inform the relevant councils in every case.BBC Scotland is aware of one case where the head teacher of a school sent sexually explicit online messages to several teachers across the country.
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