🚨 College Drama Alert! 🚨
In a recent saga that has caught everyone’s attention, Cerys Warren, a learning support worker at Coleg y Cymoedd, has been suspended over some controversial actions. She was found guilty of deleting a student’s important files amid fear for her job during a disciplinary investigation. This bold move led to her being struck off the professional register for six months.
The committee concluded that Cerys had erased the files to potentially sway the outcome of another investigation, despite her insistence that it was merely a mistake due to her limited IT skills. She claims she never intended to delete the documents from the college system, only her own, and was acting on misguided intentions around GDPR compliance.
It was a tense week-long professional standards hearing where other allegations about her conduct were not proved, but her deletion of Learner Two’s files was seen as serious enough for disciplinary action. This decision means she won’t be able to work in education settings in Wales for a while.
The panel acknowledged her previously spotless record and noted it as a “specific and isolated” incident. Chair Robert Newsome pointed out that while there was no evidence of a deep-seated behavioural issue, her actions were severe enough to warrant a temporary ban from the field she cares deeply about.
Cerys’s emotional account during the hearing painted a picture of someone devoted to her work, who may have stumbled in a moment of panic. Despite admitting to deleting the files, she maintains she didn’t fully understand the consequences of her actions due to a lack of IT training, which she says she had requested before.
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