EAS bans child sex offender from running recruitment agency

A currently imprisoned child sex offender who used fake qualifications to work in schools has been banned from running an employment agency for the maximum 10 years by the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate (EAS).
Thu, 29 Aug 2013A currently imprisoned child sex offender who used fake qualifications to work in schools has been banned from running an employment agency for the maximum 10 years by the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate (EAS).

Steven Lee Bartlett was a director of Coventry teaching agency Supplied Recruitment Limited, which was incorporated in December 2007 and dissolved in August 2009, Companies House documents show. Bartlett has never held any other director position as registered at Companies House.

During this time, he carried out several temporary assignments himself to a school in Coventry as a teaching assistant or supply teacher, using fake qualifications, EAS notes.

Bartlett was arrested in September 2010 and convicted in April 2011, following a case heard in February 2011 in which he pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud relating to the income secured through falsely claiming to be a qualified teacher, and to eight counts of “engaging in sexual activity with a male child aged under 16 and one count of causing or inciting a male child aged under 16 to engage in sexual activity”, the EAS statement says.

Currently serving an indeterminate sentence of imprisonment for public protection, he did not attend the Birmingham Employment Tribunal ruling yesterday (28 August).

Jo Swinson, the employment relations minister, describes the case as “shocking”, adding: “This ruling shows we will always take the strongest action available, and this should serve as a warning to anyone who abuses their position or thinks they will get away with faking qualifications.”

  • Rumours that the EAS was due to be scrapped came to light in June, with bodies representing the recruitment industry telling recruiter.co.uk that abolishing its “crucial” and “excellent” service would be “a disaster for the industry”. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills today confirms to recruiter.co.uk today that, as indeed was the case in June, there are no such plans.

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