Mr Andrew Winkworth

The Secretary of State does not make these decisions themselves. They are made by a senior official on the recommendation of an independent panel.

Teacher's name: Mr Andrew Winkworth

Teacher reference number: 0240622

Teacher's date of birth: 17 October 1980

Location teacher worked: Beccles, East of England

Date of professional conduct panel: 24 March 2026

Outcome type: prohibition order

Notice is hereby given that, in accordance with The Teacher's’ Disciplinary (England) Regulations 2012, a professional conduct panel was convened to consider the case of Mr Andrew Winkworth, formerly employed in Beccles, East of England.

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Mr Andrew Winkworth: Professional conduct panel meeting outcome Panel decision and reasons on behalf of the Secretary of State for Education March 2026 2 Contents Introduction 3 Allegations 4 Summary of evidence 4 Documents 4 Statement of agreed facts 5 Decision and reasons 5 Findings of fact 5 Panel’s recommendation to the Secretary of State 12 Decision and reasons on behalf of the Secretary of State 16 3 Professional conduct panel decision and recommendations, and decision on behalf of the Secretary of State Teacher: Mr Andrew Winkworth Teacher ref number: 0240622 Teacher date of birth: 17 October 1980 TRA reference: 21216 Date of determination: 24 March 2026 Former employer: Worlingham CEVC Primary School, Beccles Introduction A professional conduct panel (“the panel”) of the Teaching Regulation Agency (“the TRA”) convened on 24 March 2026 by way of a virtual meeting, to consider the case of Mr Andrew Winkworth. The panel members were Mrs Joanne Arscott (teacher panellist – in the chair), Mrs Shelley Barlow-Ward (teacher panellist) and Mr Jonathan Wettreich (lay panellist). The legal adviser to the panel was Ms Rebecca Hughes of Birketts LLP Solicitors. In advance of the meeting, after taking into consideration the public interest and the interests of justice, the TRA agreed to a request from Mr Winkworth that the allegations be considered without a hearing. Mr Winkworth provided a signed statement of agreed facts and admitted unacceptable professional conduct and/or conduct that may bring the profession into disrepute. The panel considered the case at a meeting without the attendance of the presenting officer, Emma Dowd of Capsticks LLP, Mr Winkworth or any representative for Mr Winkworth. The meeting took place in private. 4 Allegations The panel considered the allegations set out in the notice of meeting dated 15 December 2025. It was alleged that Mr Winkworth was guilty of unacceptable professional conduct and/or conduct that may bring the profession into disrepute in that, while employed as a teacher at Worlingham CEVC Primary School (“the School”): 1. On one or more occasions, he filmed in public the bottoms and/or legs of female members of the public; 2. As may be proven at allegation 1, he filmed them without their knowledge and/or consent; and/or 3. As may be proven at allegation 1, his conduct was sexually motivated. Mr Winkworth admitted the facts of allegation 1, and that those admitted facts amounted to unacceptable professional conduct and/or conduct that may bring the profession into disrepute, as set out in the response to the notice of referral signed by Mr Winkworth on 24 January 2024. Mr Winkworth also admitted the facts of allegations 1, 2 and 3 in the statement of agreed facts signed by Mr Winkworth on 19 October 2025. Summary of evidence Documents In advance of the hearing, the panel received a bundle of documents which included: Section 1: Chronology, anonymised pupil list and list of key people – pages 4 to 5 Section 2: Notice of referral, response and notice of meeting – pages 6 to 31 Section 3: Statement of agreed facts and presenting officer representations – pages 32 to 36 Section 4: TRA documents (which included the videos allegedly found on the School server exhibited separately) – pages 37 to 306 Section 5: Teacher documents – pages 307 to 314 The panel members confirmed that they had read all the documents in the bundle in advance of the hearing. In considering this case, the panel had regard to the document “Teacher misconduct: Disciplinary procedures for the teaching profession 2020” (the “Procedures”). 5 Statement of agreed facts The panel considered a statement of agreed facts, signed by Mr Winkworth on 19 October 2025 and subsequently by the presenting officer on 20 October 2025. Decision and reasons The panel announced its decision and reasons as follows: The panel carefully considered the case before it and reached a decision. In advance of the meeting, the TRA agreed to Mr Winkworth's request that the allegations be considered without a hearing. The panel had the ability to direct that the case be considered at a hearing if required in the interests of justice or in the public interest. The panel did not determine that such a direction was necessary or appropriate in this case. Mr Winkworth was employed as a class teacher at the School from 1 September 2012 until his dismissal on 12 September 2022. On 23 March 2022, the headteacher of the School was informed of potential safeguarding issues concerning Mr Winkworth’s laptop, which had synced with the School server. The records allegedly showed videos from a smartphone following women around Norwich between August 2020 and 19 January 2022. Suffolk police’s safeguarding team conducted an investigation on 24 March 2022, and no evidence of criminality was found. A LADO meeting was conducted, and Mr Winkworth was suspended pending investigation. Mr Winkworth was later dismissed on 12 July 2022. The matter was referred to the TRA on 14 October 2022. Findings of fact The findings of fact are as follows: The panel found the following particulars of the allegations against you proved, for these reasons: 1. On one or more occasions, you filmed in public the bottoms and/or legs of female members of the public. 6 The panel noted that Mr Winkworth admitted allegation 1, as set out in the response to the notice of referral signed by Mr Winkworth on 24 January 2024 and in the statement of agreed facts signed by Mr Winkworth on 19 October 2025. Mr Winkworth admitted that he filmed females on the street in public from behind. He also admitted he focused the filming on their bottoms and/or legs. Mr Winkworth further admitted that this amounted to unacceptable professional conduct and conduct that may bring the profession into disrepute. Notwithstanding this, the panel made a determination based on the evidence before it. The panel considered the witness statement of Individual A, [REDACTED] at the School. Individual A explained that the School used an anti-virus system called Sophos, which identified suspicious activity such as “malicious files, programs, worms, trogons, and ransomware”. Sophos also monitored malicious activity caused by websites with content such as alcohol, gambling and pornography through a central management console in the cloud. Individual A explained that all Windows devices at the School had Sophos installed. Individual A stated that, during Mr Winkworth’s employment, the School issued him with three laptops and an iPad. Mr Winkworth’s laptops were connected to his School Google Drive, and Individual A confirmed that it would have been possible for Mr Winkworth to access his personal Google Drive on his laptops by using the web browser. In his statement, Individual A stated that he was searching the School server on 23 March 2022, for a Snape performance video made a week prior. Mr Winkworth was absent during this time [REDACTED] but had told the School office that the video was on the server. Individual A explained that, as he could not find the video on the server, he looked at Mr Winkworth’s account and found graphic videos in his downloads folder. Individual A stated that, from the videos, it appeared he had filmed women walking on the streets of Norwich. He could tell from the metadata that the dates for these videos were between 6 August 2020 and 29 January 2022. He contacted the headteacher and reported the videos. Individual A stated that Mr Winkworth returned his laptops to Individual A on 1 April 2022. He found that Mr Winkworth had downloaded files from a USB stick and had recently opened them. During Individual A’ inspection of Mr Winkworth’s iPads, he found that Mr Winkworth had linked his personal Google account to the iPads with his personal email address. Individual A identified inappropriate videos from thumbnail images that matched those he had found on the School server. The videos were filmed in Norwich and featured groups and lone women, with some focusing on their bottoms. These videos had been saved onto the School server from Mr Winkworth’s personal Google Drive. The videos could be accessed and viewed through the Drive app, which was installed on the iPad. When Individual A looked through the iPad, the videos appeared but then disappeared, indicating that Mr Winkworth had deleted them. Individual A stated that he 7 did not find anything inappropriate stored on Mr Winkworth’s iPads, but believed he used them to access graphic content from his personal Google Drive. Individual A stated that he believed much of the material found on the devices and linked to his account would not be classed as “really bad”, but he was concerned because the content was graphic and worried about pupils at the School seeing it. Individual A stated that he was aware that staff members at the School were subject to the Online Safety policy, the ICT Acceptable Use Policy, and the Employee Handbook, which contains the Code of Conduct. The panel also considered the Log of Investigation detailing Individual A’ IT procedures, the ‘Deleted Files’ recovery information from the teacher’s laptops, and screenshots of videos located in the ‘Downloads’ folder on the School server. The panel noted that the thumbnails depicted repeated images of women’s bottoms and legs, with women wearing leggings or trousers. The panel also considered the record of a meeting held on 18 May 2022 between Individual B and Individual C, [REDACTED]. That record noted that videos showed women being followed around Norwich, with the focus on their bottoms. The record stated that Individual C stated that they were confident the videos had been created by Mr Winkworth, as they were located on his laptop, showed footwear he was known to wear, and included