Home > Regulation > Hearings schedule and decisions Fitness To Teach What is Fitness To Teach Process Make a Referral Criminal convictions The Investigation process About Hearings Rules and Policies Professional Update and Fitness to Teach Outcomes Hearings schedule and decisions Fitness to Teach Statistics Hearings schedule and decisions Our Fitness to Teach Publication Policy sets out how we communicate information about our fitness to teach cases to the public. You can view our scheduled Fitness to Teach Hearings up to 7 days in advance by clicking on highlighted dates on the Hearings calendar. Please note that you will find the hearing day start time but not timings for individual cases as this varies according to events on the day. Our Fitness to Teach hearing decisions and any consent orders (which are issued without the need for a hearing) are published below. Recent Decisions Hearing Date Teacher Type of Hearing Outcome Published 13 & 24 September 2019, 6 & 7 January 2020 Joseph Kyrollos Full Hearing Outcome - Joseph Kyrollos Conditional Registration Order 25/02/2020 14 November 2019, 17 January 2020 Teacher X Procedural Hearing Decision - Teacher X - Procedural Hearing 1 Decision - Teacher X - Procedural Hearing 2 25/02/2020 3 & 4 December 2019, 20 January 2020 George Cameron Full Hearing Decision - George Cameron 03/03/2020 8, 9, 10, 22, 29 & 30 January Delia McLaughlan Full Hearing Decision - Delia McLaughlan 12/03/2020 22 October, 11 November, 12 December 2019. 27 February 2020 Adrian Marchant Professional Competence Full Hearing Decision - Adrian Marchant 26/03/2020 Recent decisions remain in the table above for one month. Past decisions remain in the Decisions Archive below for a period of 3 months following the date the decision is published (see right hand column). Hearings are held at our offices and are open to the public. 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They are removed three months after the publishing date: December December Hearing Date Teacher Type of Hearing Outcome Published 25 and 26 November Sandra Beaton Full Hearing Decision - Sandra Beaton 23.12.19 27 November Teacher Z Panel Meeting Panel Consideration and Anonymity Application Outcome Outcome - Teacher Z Teacher Z - Consent Order (PDF) 23.12.19 20 February, 24 April, 12 July, 3 December 2019 Teacher A Panel Consideration Outcome Decision - Teacher A Decision - Teacher A (Anonymity) Decision - Teacher A (Anonymity) Decision - Teacher A (Anonymity) Teacher A - Reprimand with Consent Order 06/02/2020 Hearing Calendar FULL HEARING Date of hearing: 4, 5, 23, 24 and 25 March 2020 Location: GTCS Type of hearing/Application: Full Hearing A Full Hearing is to be held to consider the following: On or around 16 June 2016 you were convicted of the charge that: “on 26 January 2014 or 27 January 2014, at Ward 3, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Sciennes Road, Edinburgh, you did behave in a threatening or abusive manner which was likely to cause a reasonable person to suffer fear or alarm in that you did behave in an aggressive manner, refuse to leave the ward, causing annoyance and placing A and B, all c/o Police Service of Scotland, Edinburgh in a state of alarm CONTRARY to Section 38(1) of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010”. Between June 2013 and June 2014, while employed by the City of Edinburgh Council as Head Teacher at Castlebrae High School, you did: upon receipt of an allegation that a teacher at the school was sexually harassing an adult learner, fail to adequately assess the seriousness of the complaint and ensure that an investigation was properly conducted and progressed in accordance with the relevant Council policies and procedures’ upon receipt of the allegation referred to at allegation 2(a), fail to ensure that sufficient support was put in place for the adult learner upon receipt of a report of a potential historical child protection disclosure during the course of the investigation into the allegation at 2(a) above, fail to take appropriate action in line with the Council’s Child Protection guidelines. fail to adhere to Council procedures in relation to payment of travel expenses of £399 from City of Edinburgh Council fail to adhere to Council procedures in relation to payment of salaries to tertiary staff avoiding the payment of tax and national insurance. and in light of the above, it is alleged that your fitness to teach is impaired and you are unfit to teach, as a result of breaching Parts 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.4 and 2.6 of the General Teaching Council for Scotland’s Code of Professionalism and Conduct. Members of the public and media are expected to give at least one working days’ notice to GTCS if they wish to attend a hearing in order to allow staffing arrangements to be put in place. Link to media guidelines. In relation to applications for privacy, media are entitled to make representations to the Panel if they so wish. Further information can be found in the Privacy and Anonymity Practice statement, which you can Read here. Conduct Full Hearing Date of hearing: 10-12 March 2020 Location: GTCS Type of hearing/Application: Conduct Full Hearing A Full Hearing is to be held to consider the following: Between January 2013 and December 2014 whilst you were a [redacted] registered with [redacted]: Between 2013 and March 2014 whilst employed by South Lanarkshire Council as a [redacted], and during the course of that employment, you did: on about 6 March 2014, record that you had undertaken a home visit to service user AA and met with AA prior to any visit having taken place, and in doing so you were dishonest: on 5 March 2014: initially advise your line manager ZZ that you had contact with AA on 6 March 2014, which you knew to be untrue, and in doing so you were dishonest and advise your line manager ZZ that you had previously telephoned AA's father on the telephone number recorded on 'Swisplus' and spoken with him to arrange the visit, despite this telephone number being unobtainable; and in doing so you were dishonest; on about 14 March 2014, initially record that you had visited and seen BB on 14 March 2014 for a Supervising Officer's visit when you did not conduct a visit to BB on that date, and in doing so you were dishonest; on 17 March 2014, amend the date of a visit to BB from 14 March 2014 to 24 February 2014 and in doing so you were dishonest; between about 1 July 2013 and 17 December 2013, in relation to service user CC who suffers from Huntington’s Disease and regarding whom health concerns had been raised by health practitioners: between 1 July 2013 and 23 October 2013, fail to respond to several messages from a Senior Huntington’s Disease Specialist in relation to CC; on 5 November 2013, fail to attend a pre-arranged visit with CC and a Consultant Psychiatrist;on 17 December 2013, fail to attend an urgent pre-arranged health visit with CC and a Consultant Psychiatrist and in doing so you failed to meet relevant standards of practice and put CC at risk of harm; 2. Between November 2014 and December 2014, whilst employed as a [redacted] by [redacted] and whilst working for [redacted], you did: on 9 December 2014, at [redacted], whilst giving evidence at a reconvened Preliminary Proceedings Sub-Committee and whilst under caution: state that [redacted] were aware that you were under investigation by [redacted] when this was not the case, and in doing so you were dishonest; state that you were advised by a representative of [redacted] that you did not need to inform [redacted] that you were under investigation by [redacted], and in doing so you were dishonest and in doing so you failed to communicate in an open and accurate manner. And in light of the above it is alleged that your fitness to teach is impaired and you are unfit to teach, as a result of breaching Parts 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6 of the General Teaching Council for Scotland’s Code of Professionalism and Conduct. Members of the public and media are expected to give at least one working days’ notice to GTCS if they wish to attend a hearing in order to allow staffing arrangements to be put in place. Link to media guidelines. In relation to applications for privacy, media are entitled to make representations to the Panel if they so wish. Further information can be found in the Privacy and Anonymity Practice statement, which you can Read here. Contacts For any media enquiries, please contact: T: +44 (0) 131 314 6077 Media guidelines Downloads Fitness to Teach Publication Policy Privacy and Anonymity Practice Statement