Mr Patrick Cambridge

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 Patrick Cambridge

Teacher reference number: 0305189

Teacher's date of birth: 19 June 1967

Location teacher worked: Redhill, South East England

Date of professional conduct panel: 8 to 9 December 2025

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 Patrick Cambridge formerly employed in Redhill, South East England.

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Mr Patrick Cambridge: Professional conduct panel outcome Panel decision and reasons on behalf of the Secretary of State for Education December 2025 2 Contents Introduction 3 Allegations 4 Summary of evidence 4 Documents 4 Witnesses 5 Decision and reasons 5 Findings of fact 6 Panel’s recommendation to the Secretary of State 13 Decision and reasons on behalf of the Secretary of State 17 3 Professional conduct panel decision and recommendations, and decision on behalf of the Secretary of State Teacher: Mr Patrick Cambridge Teacher ref number: 0305189 Teacher date of birth: 19 June 1967 TRA reference: 23112 Date of determination: 9 December 2025 Former employer: St Bede’s School, Redhill Introduction A professional conduct panel (“the panel”) of the Teaching Regulation Agency (“the TRA”) convened on 8 December 2025 by way of a virtual hearing, to consider the case of Mr Patrick Cambridge. The panel members were Mr Paul Hawkins (lay panellist – in the chair), Mrs Bev Williams (teacher panellist) and Mr Philip Trendall (lay panellist). The legal adviser to the panel was Miss Nicoletta Czajkowska of Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP solicitors. The presenting officer for the TRA was Ms Charlotte Watts of Browne Jacobson LLP solicitors. Mr Cambridge was not present and was not represented. The hearing took place in public save that portions of the hearing were heard in private and the hearing was recorded. 4 Allegations The panel considered the allegations set out in the Notice of Proceedings dated 24 September 2025. It was alleged that Mr Cambridge was guilty of unacceptable professional conduct and/or conduct that may bring the profession into, in that: 1. Whilst applying for the role of Teacher of Computing at St Bede’s School and/or whilst employed as a Teacher at St Bede’s School, he: a. Failed to disclose that he had been employed as a Teacher at Redehall School between 11 November 2023 to 07 December 2023; b. Failed to provide his most recent employer, Redehall School, as a reference on his application form; c. Stated on his application form that he was working on his holiday home between September and December 2023, when in fact he was employed at Redehall School; d. Failed to disclose that he was and/or had been the subject of an investigation relating to physical contact towards a child 2. His conduct as may be found proven at allegation 1 above lacked integrity and/or was dishonest In the absence of the teacher, the allegations were not admitted. Summary of evidence Documents In advance of the hearing, the panel received a bundle of documents which included: Section 1: Notice of Proceedings and response – pages 5 to 27 Section 1: Teaching Regulation Agency witness statements – pages 29 to 146 Section 3: Teaching Regulation Agency documents – pages 148 to 260 Section 4: Teacher documents – pages 262 to 267 In addition, the panel agreed to accept the following additional documents from the TRA containing the below: 5 Email from Mr Cambridge responding to TRA’s email on 12 March 2024. Email from the TRA to Mr Cambridge on 12 August 2024. Correspondence Request Form filled out by Mr Cambridge on 30 January 2025. Email exchanges between Mr Cambridge’s representative and the TRA between 7 May 2025 and 29 May 2025. Email exchanges between Mr Cambridge’s representative and the TRA between 24 September 2025 and 30 October 2025. Email exchanges between Mr Cambridge’s representative and the TRA between 31 October 2025 and 13 November 2025. Email exchanges between Mr Cambridge’s representative and the TRA between 24 October 2025 and 21 November 2025. The panel members confirmed that they had read all of the documents within the bundle, in advance of the hearing and the additional documents that the panel decided to admit. In the consideration of this case, the panel had regard to the document Teacher misconduct: Disciplinary procedures for the teaching profession 2020, (the “Procedures”). Witnesses The panel heard oral evidence from the following witnesses called by the presenting officer: Witness A - [REDACTED] Witness B - [REDACTED] Decision and reasons The panel announced its decision and reasons as follows: The panel carefully considered the case before it and reached a decision. Mr Cambridge was employed as a teacher at Redehall School from 11 November 2023. On 5 December an incident took place at Redehall School involving Mr Cambridge and a pupil. The panel did not consider details of this incident as it did not form part of the allegations before it. 6 Mr Cambridge was interviewed for a role at St Bede’s School (“the School”) on 7 December 2023 and began his employment as a teacher of computing on 2 January 2024. He was subsequently dismissed on 29 January 2024 following disciplinary proceedings. The referral was made to the TRA on 30 January 2024 by the School and Redehall School. 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. Whilst applying for the role of Teacher of Computing at St Bede’s School and/or whilst employed as a Teacher at St Bede’s School, you: a. Failed to disclose that you had been employed as a Teacher at Redehall School between 11 November 2023 to 05 December 2023; The panel considered the evidence from Witness A ’s witness statement and exhibits, that the School received Mr Cambridge’s CV on 30 November 2023 via an agency and subsequently an application form on 12 December 2023 directly from Mr Cambridge. Mr Cambridge was interviewed by the School on 7 December 2023. In Mr Cambridge’s CV, his last recorded employment is listed as “[REDACTED]” as “Special Education Teacher and IT Teacher” from April 2022 – August 2023. In the job application section “Details of Present or Most Recent Teaching Appointments” [REDACTED] is provided with dates of April 2022 – August 2023. In the section “Periods When Not Working” of the job application, Mr Cambridge stated that he was “Working on holiday home in Scotland whilst looking for IT teaching post” from “Sept 2023” to “until now”. The panel also noted that on the “Referees” section of the job application it states that “The first referee provided must be your present or most recent employer” and Mr Cambridge listed Referee 1 as the [REDACTED]. The panel noted that on 9 January 2024, Witness A was informed by the LADO that Mr Cambridge was subject to an investigation involving a child from Redehall School and that the School was unaware at this stage that Mr Cambridge previously worked at Redehall School or that he was subject to an investigation. 7 On 10 January 2024, Mr Cambridge sent an email to Witness A in which he stated “I would be grateful if I could have time out to attend an important meeting. This is not the email I wanted to send the second week as a newbie to the HT. (Wednesday 17th morning to mid afternoon) In short, I was attacked last year and despite giving my statement to the solicitor and Police, they have requested I attend an interview. I have managed to move it to the morning, but they cannot move it to my day off on a Tuesday. I am not looking forward to reliving the incident again. Apologies for the lateness of this request but I had to wait them to change the time to an earlier slot”. The panel found this email to be carefully worded by Mr Cambridge, not to disclose to Witness A that the incident involved a pupil, took place while at his previous employment as a teacher, specifically not disclosing his previous employment at Redehall School and that he was subject to an investigation. Later the same day, Witness A held a meeting with Mr Cambridge to discuss the information provided by the LADO and Mr Cambridge’s email. The panel considered minutes of this meeting, which recorded that Mr Cambridge confirmed his previous employment at Redehall School. Witness A indicated to Mr Cambridge that he had not been honest on his application form, and Mr Cambridge agreed that he had been “naughty” in omitting this. Mr Cambridge was informed that he would be suspended from the School pending an internal investigation. In response, he “apologised for omitting information on his application and for putting the School in this position”. Further, the minutes note that Mr Cambridge “said he was really sorry for putting [REDACTED] [Witness A] and the School in this position but he didn’t feel there were any safeguarding issues and he was not putting the School at risk”. The panel also noted that Mr Cambridge disputed some details of the minutes from this meeting in an email dated 12 January 2024. This related to when he informed Redehall School of his job interview with the School and the date on which he received his P45 from Redehall School. The panel found these points irrelevant to the allegations before it; however, Mr Cambridge did not dispute the admissions recorded in the minutes. As part of the internal investigation, Mr Cambridge was interviewed on 10 January 2024 by [REDACTED]. When asked why he did not disclose his employment at Redehall School on his application form or in his CV, Mr Cambridge’s recorded responses in the minutes were: “Only there for a couple of weeks The incident that occurred did not reflect his 25-year teaching career.” “confirmed that he had been dishonest on his application to Saint Bede’s about his employment there and that in hindsight he should not have done this. 8 “confirmed there had been an incident with a pupil at the School leading to his sudden resignation. He did not think the incident that occurred there was going anywhere until he got a phone call over Christmas. “ Mr Cambridge was subject to disciplinary proceeding, and a hearing took place on 29 January 2