Tony Oliver, chairman of the North Somerset Safeguarding Children Board, said: ‘Nigel Leat alone was responsible for the criminal behaviour at Hillside.’
Managers at Hillside First School in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, also iled to notify the school’s governors or the local education authority wiclassroom managementth the concerns.
Leat was described by a judge as a ‘paedophile of the most sickening order’ when he was jailed indefinitely last year after abusing five girls, some as young as six.
A teacher was able to film himself abusing young girls in his classroom because the school iled to act on his increasingly depraved behaviour, an independent report has revealed.
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However, the school’s management style ‘discouraSchool iled repeatedly to stop paedophile teacher Nigel Leatged comment and open communication,’ the report added.
A serious case review identified 20 pupils who were witnesses or victims of abuse committed by 51-year-old Leat and said his behaviour was typical of a paedophile’s ‘grooming’ activities.
‘It was well known in the school that (Leat) had vourite pupils that he gave special attention to,’ the report said.
It added that a school management report noted at least 30 incidents of Leat’s ‘inappropriate or unprofessional conduct’ but only 11 were recorded formally.
Bosses at Nigel Leat’s school had repeatedly been told of Leat’s inappropriate behaviour by fellow teachers but iled to act.
These included Leat taking photographs of pupils on his phone, of kissing and cuddling them and even having an erection while sitting on cushions in the library with a pupil.
Leat admitted 36 offences, including attempted rape of a child and ual assault. Police also found more than 30,000 indecent photographs on memory sticks.
