{"id":956511,"date":"2026-05-13T06:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/956511\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T06:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:58:13","slug":"prohibition-order-for-wakefield-teacher-who-slapped-pupil-in-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/956511\/","title":{"rendered":"Prohibition order for Wakefield teacher who slapped pupil in face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the TRA report, Eckles said the incident had arisen after a pupil in her classroom had repeatedly refused to put his laptop away while playing a game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said her hand had accidentally made contact with the boy&#8217;s face when she &#8220;overbalanced&#8221; as she tried to take the laptop away from him while he tried to push her away and grab the laptop back. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eckles also provided evidence that &#8220;she did not have sufficient trained staff around her, that Pupil A had thrown laptops at her on previous occasions and that the school was an unsafe and unsupported environment&#8221;, according to the report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the panel found that &#8220;the subject matter of the criminal conviction would be likely to have an impact on safety or security of pupils or members of the public&#8221; and &#8220;would be likely to affect public confidence in the teaching profession&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also found Eckles had not demonstrated remorse for the incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The report added: &#8220;The panel was extremely troubled by the offence against a child of which Ms Eckles had been convicted and considered that it could have no assurance that such actions would not be repeated.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the TRA report, Eckles said the incident had arisen after a pupil in her classroom had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":956512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-956511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116565973997475119","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/956512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}