Publication date: 21 Hydref 2024

A Fitness to Practise Committee of the Education Workforce Council (EWC), sitting remotely on 30 September and 1 to 4 October 2024, has found an allegation of unacceptable professional conduct proved against school teacher, Mr James Jones.

The Fitness to Practise Committee found the following allegations proven, that whilst employed as a Deputy Headteacher at Wats Dyke Primary School, Mr Jones engaged in inappropriate use of social media on a number of occasions in that:

1. on or around 17 January 2022, he shared two videos to all subscribed parents on the school SeeSaw app which showed pupils in his Year 1/2 class sharing personal and/or confidential information in that:
   1. video 1 showed pupils sharing pupils’ spelling score results in September 2021 following their spelling score result in January 2022
   2. video 2 showed pupils’ spelling score result number increase from September 2021 to January 2022
2. on or around 18 January 2021, he shared his class SeeSaw blog page to his public Facebook account.

Having made these findings, the Committee also determined that Mr Jones’ conduct at 1 and 2 breached confidentiality.

The Fitness to Practise Committee imposed a Reprimand on Mr Jones’ registration as a school teacher for a period of 2 years (from 4 October 2024 to 4 October 2026). As such, Mr Jones will be able to work as a registered person (school teacher) in a maintained school or non-maintained special school in Wales for the period of the Reprimand.

Mr Jones has the right of appeal to the High Court within 28 days.