Former Oldbury headteacher accused of spending budget on Caribbean holidays
He also found that Miss Duncan inappropriately removed £27,600 from one school budget into the same Jamaica Trip fund.
In November 2004 Miss Duncan travelled to Antigua on a private holiday where she ‘swam with dolphins’.
She claimed the swimming experience as an expense on the basis that it was a risk assessment for a future school trip to Jamaica.
In April 2006, Miss Duncan and Miss Simcox travelled to Jamaica and claimed the cost of the trip on the same grounds. The two teachers are alleged to have allowed four members of Miss Simcox’s family to travel on a school trip to Jamaica in May 2006 without ensuring they had been properly checked for working with children.
Miss Duncan, who was relocated to Victoria Park School, in Oldbury, in the capacity of advisory head teacher, resigned in February 2007.
Miss Simcox was dismissed from Meadows School in April 2007 for gross misconduct.
The hearing continues today.
