Head teacher dismissed sex offender’s behaviour as ‘silly’

A head teacher who allowed a registered sex offender to work at her secondary school and dismissed his previous behaviour as ‘silly’ has been kicked out of the profession. Cheryl Hill failed to report a ‘safeguarding incident’ at the Nicholas Hammond Academy, in Swaffham, Norfolk after the man had been in contact with a pupil on social media. The man, referred to only as Mr X, had been reprimanded in 2013 for inciting a child under 16 into engaging in…