“Will all practitioners, in ALL professional fields be asked to sit for psychological assessment prior to the issue of their warrants?”

Why not, when the safety of others is in their hands?

I wasn’t suggesting professionals should be tested but that the warrant would have been given regardless so the warrant in itself is not a safeguard.

A psychological test might reveal something although this is no guarantee either.

However I think that if you are dealing with children you should be psychologically tested yes you can never be safe enough.

I don’t like to admit it but you cannot trust anyone any more (maybe since the dawn of time) not a teacher, not a priest, not your neighbour, not anyone.

What next? Will all practitioners, in ALL professional fields be asked to sit for psychological assessment prior to the issue of their warrants?

For certain subjects or for primary schooling It is usually quite easy to find a replacement teacher but in some sectors one struggles. Now the thinking is that it is better to have someone with an a-level in say chemistry teaching the students than nobody. Obviously this is not always the case and sometimes more harm is done.

Now the Minister needs to decide if he wants to have supply teachers or not. Does he want to retain the flexibility of filling in posts for a short period of time (example until a teacher returns from maternity leave). If not he will surely end up with several classes without teachers and will still need a solution for this other problem.

Again this has nothing to do with this case. To my knowledge there is no psychological testing done before giving a person a teacher’s warrant so this person would have had a warrant and would have still done the same thing to this young girl.

Do not attempt to hoodwink people with brains(i.e.non PL supporters).

They are watching you.

Now is your chance. Deliver or perish.

Get going for Christ’s and our children’s and grandchildren’s sake.

They are the icing on the cake. Most of them do not even hold the core subjects SEC qualifications. For example, how can a learning support assistant help a pupil in Physics when the LSA doesn’t even hold a minimum qualification in the subject?