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A teacher's Previous convictions should be found on a CRB check. If the crimes occur after they are employed, then the teacher should have to notify their employer. If the crimes involve a court appearance, then they are likely to be found out anyway. There are other instances of teachers being banned with their criminality is discovered.
// Nicola Meredith concealed a total of 13 offences while working at the International School and Community College in Tile Cross, including drink driving and an assault on a police constable in which she bit the officer twice.
Other offences, committed over a seven-year period, included two convictions for driving whilst disqualified, being drunk and disorderly and using an iron bar to cause GBP5,000-worth of damage to a car.
The 29-year-old English teacher was suspended from her post at the International School in March two years ago and was sacked following a disciplinary hearing in March this year.
International School head teacher Mark Garside said Miss Meredith had a clean criminal record when she joined the school in 2004 and was "immediately suspended" when her convictions came to light.
The teacher has now been suspended from the classroom for two years after being found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct at a General Teaching Council hearing in Birmingham. //