Teacher jailed for welfare fraud banned from teaching for 10 years

Actions were “at the most serious end of the spectrum” and any lesser sanction than removal from the register would have been too lenient, says disciplinary committee

A court heard Daniel Alexandre Daudet had used a false identity to fraudulently claim social welfare payments including unemployment, Back to Education, and rent allowances between 2002 and 2015.

A music teacher convicted of more than 700 offences of social welfare fraud has been banned from teaching for a period of 10 years by the Teaching Council.

The council’s disciplinary committee announced on Thursday that it had decided to strike off Daniel Alexandre Daudet from the register of teachers without the ability to re-apply to work as a teacher for a period of 10 years.