Overview

• Joshua Adusei received an indefinite teaching ban in May 2025, subject to a five-year review period following a TRA panel decision.
• In April 2021 he organised a Change.org petition accusing the headteacher of racism, securing more than 6,000 signatures.
• The petition sparked online abuse and four death threats against the headteacher, leading to plain-clothes police guarding the school gates.
• The panel found he enlisted 10–20 students in the playground, failed to complete welfare calls, missed online lessons and retweeted pupil comments in breach of safeguarding protocols.
• Adjudicator Sarah Buxcey concluded his actions amounted to an abuse of trust with no mitigating evidence or remorse, making a lesser sanction insufficient.