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Hissing class assistant suspended
Western Mail
|May 09, 2025
A SCHOOL learning support worker has been banned from working in education for 12 months after she filmed herself "mocking", hissing and gesturing at a young pupil and shared it on social media.
Lois Bennett was employed by Ysgol Y Graig Primary in Cefn-coed-y-cymmer, Merthyr Tydfil, to work with the child in the nursery class after glowing references from a teaching agency. However, within just six days of starting her contract, on October 23, 2023, Bennett filmed the pupil and shared the video.
Bennett filmed the child on her phone while she was alone with him on a “changing bed” in the school changing rooms, an Education Workforce Council Wales (EWC) fitness to practise hearing was told this week.
This story is from the May 09, 2025 edition of Western Mail.
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