Board cannot act over alleged school abuse

CONCERN is growing among children’s groups after the National Board for Safeguarding Children confirmed they cannot intervene in an alleged child abuse case involving three teachers in a primary school in the south-east.

In the past three years, 20% of the pupils have been removed from the small rural school after nine children from six families alleged abuse or alleged to have witnessed abuse.

Five of the children say they were sexually abused by a class teacher. Three of the children say the headmistress was involved in the sexual abuse.