Top English academy trust faces safeguarding review over ‘emotional abuse’ of pupils
Sunday 15th December 2024
Observer investigation into London school has sparked an inquiry into allegations that teachers harmed mental wellbeing of children
A school in one of England’s leading academy trusts is to face an independent safeguarding review after an Observer investigation exposed allegations of emotional abuse of children over two decades.
After an emergency multi-agency meeting on Tuesday, Jim Gamble, the independent child safeguarding commissioner for Hackney in east London, confirmed on Friday that he had launched a local child safeguarding practice review – normally reserved for serious individual cases of child abuse or neglect – into Mossbourne Victoria Park academy (MVPA).
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