Publication date: 9 December 2024

A Fitness to Practise Committee of the Education Workforce Council (EWC), sitting remotely on 2, 3 and 4 December 2024, has found an allegation of ‘unacceptable professional conduct’ proved against work-based learning practitioner, Mr Richard Stratton-Thomas.

The Fitness to Practise Committee found the following allegations proven, that whilst employed as a freelance tutor at INSPIRE Training (GE) Ltd, Mr Stratton-Thomas, on 25 July 2023, allowed Learner A to stay overnight at his house and did not report concerns about Learner A to Inspire Training or Social Services.

The Fitness to Practise Committee imposed a Reprimand on Mr Stratton-Thomas’s registration as a work-based learning practitioner for a period of 2 years (from 4 December 2024 to 4 December 2026). As such, Mr Stratton-Thomas will be able to work as a work-based learning practitioner, who provides services for or on behalf of a work-based learning body (other than as a volunteer) in Wales for the period of the Reprimand.

Mr Stratton-Thomas has the right of appeal to the High Court within 28 days.