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 17 July 2019 Karen Howat Panel Meeting - Unchallenged Removal Recommendation Decision - Karen Howat 15.08.19 22 May 2019 Craig Smith Panel Consideration Decision - Craig Smith Removal with Consent Order 02.08.19 17 July 2019 Michael Gaffney Panel Meeting Decision - Michael Gaffney Signed Conditional Registration Order - Redacted 01.08.19 29 April 2019 Kristine Gillespie Panel Consideration Decision - Kristine Gillespie Signed Conditional Registration Order - Redacted 01.08.19 16 - 17 May 2019 Patrick Carroll Professional Competence Full Hearing Decision - Patrick Carroll Conditional Registration Order 18.07.19 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. GTC Scotland Clerwood House 96 Clermiston Road Edinburgh EH12 6UT Location Map You can also find us using Google Maps Archive Previous decisions are archived monthly and can be viewed below. They are removed three months after the publishing date: Hearing Calendar August M T W T F 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 12 13 14 15 16 19 20 21 22 23 26 27 28 29 30 September M T W T F 2 3 4 5 6 9 10 11 12 13 16 17 18 19 20 23 > 24 25 26 27 30 CONDUCT FULL HEARING Date of hearing: 26 & 27 August Location: GTCS Type of hearing/Application: Conduct Full Hearing On 31 January 2018, whilst employed by Perth & Kinross Council as a registered teacher at Perth High School, you did: attend for work under the influence of alcohol bring alcohol into your classroom And in light of the above it is alleged that your fitness to teach is impaired as a result of breaching Parts 1.3, 1.4, 1.6 and 2.3 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 CONDUCT FULL HEARING Date of hearing: 13 & 24 September Location: GTCS Type of hearing/Application: Conduct Full Hearing Between 1 September 2015 and 11 January 2016, whilst employed as a teacher at [School 1], a Secure Unit, and whilst subject to a Final Written Warning imposed by your employer on 27 March 2015 you did: Inform the Scottish Qualification Authority (SQA) that pupils had completed assessments which would lead to a Unit award when you knew that the pupils had not completed the assessments at that date; Attempt to conceal your false submission to the SQA by having pupils complete the assessment and thereafter present it as having been completed prior to your submission to SQA; Pay money directly into pupils’ bank accounts without the knowledge of the Education Manager; And in relation to your conduct at allegation 1(a) and (b) above you were dishonest in that you attempted to obtain Unit awards for pupils based on information that you knew to be inaccurate; 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 1.2, 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 HEARING TYPE Date of hearing: DATE Location: GTCS Type of hearing/Application: HEARINGTYPE TEXT 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