Publication date: 27 June 2025

A Fitness to Practise Committee of the Education Workforce Council (EWC), sitting remotely on 10 to 13 June 2025, have found an allegation of ‘unacceptable professional conduct’ proved against school learning support worker, Tina Sherratt.    

The Committee found the following allegations proven, that whilst employed as a peripatetic music teacher at Conwy County Borough Council, Ms Sherratt between around October 2020 and May 2023:

• regularly did not respond to communications from one or more colleagues
• did not submit visit forms/timesheets on a monthly basis, as requested by one or more colleagues
• did not notify a school that she would not be attending for a lesson with a pupil, because they had made other arrangements
• failed to provide data relating to learner engagement
• did not provide free school meals data
• failed to complete all mandatory training modules as required
• failed to seek prior authorisation for absence
• failed to notify management and/or Colleague A of her absence from work
• failed to inform the schools that she was due to attend during this period of intended absence

The committee found the conduct in respect of absences from work amounted to a lack of integrity.

The Fitness to Practise Committee imposed a Reprimand on Ms Sherratt’s registration as a school learning support worker, for a period of 2 years (from 13 June 2025 to 13 June 2027).

As such, Ms Sherratt will be able to work as a school learning support worker in a maintained school or non-maintained special school in Wales during the period of the Reprimand.

Ms Sherratt has a right of appeal to High Court within 28 days.