A Somerset teacher has been barred from the profession after a Teaching Regulation Agency panel found he had engaged in “professional misconduct”.
The TRA panel’s decision, chaired by Mr Diarmuid Bunting and published October 31, states: “The panel has made a recommendation to the Secretary of State that Mr Daniel Usher-Clark should be the subject of a prohibition order, with a review period of five years.”
Daniel Usher-Clarke worked at two secondary schools in Taunton where he was found to have sent inappropriate messages and made comments of a sexual nature to multiple students.
The panel concluded that Mr Usher-Clarke’s conduct “fell significantly short of the standards expected of the profession”.
Mr Usher-Clarke may appeal for the prohibition order to be removed in 2029, five years from the date of the hearing.
Under the ban, Mr Usher-Clarke is “prohibited from teaching indefinitely and cannot teach in any school, sixth form college, relevant youth accommodation or children’s home in England”.
Mr Usher-Clarke taught at the Castle School and at Bishop Fox’s School.
