Warning over sex-offenders getting NI teaching posts

Sex-offenders could get jobs as teachers in Northern schools if they are among those not banned from teaching by under-fire, Ulster-born British education secretary Ruth Kelly, it was revealed today.

As she became engulfed in further controversy, Nigel Williams, Commissioner for Children in the North, urged ministers to swiftly implement all measures necessary to keep the sex offenders and paedophiles out of classrooms.