A primary school headteacher who was sacked from her role after being accused of assault for tapping her son’s hand has been awarded more than £100,000. Shelly-Ann Malabver-Goulbourne, 46, tapped her three-year-old son’s hand to get his attention one evening in January 2022 as she was trying to stop him from playing with a bottle of hand sanitiser.
Ms Malabver-Goulbourne, who was the headteacher of Northwold Primary School in Hackney, was later suspended from her role, a disciplinary investigation was launched and the police were called in.Despite the police ruling that her actions were “reasonable chastisement” by a parent, in May 2022 Ms Malabver-Goulbourne was sacked by Arbor Academy Trust for gross misconduct.She was told: “The Trust expressly forbids any physical chastisement or contact of any kind,' she was told.
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