More than half of SAs teachers have not been vetted against the list of delinquents who appear in the National Sex Offender Registry NSOR.
From March, only 27 109,230 of the 400,015 teachers have been vetted, and 65 have since been dismissed. This means about 290,000 teachers in our schools have not been verified, posing potential danger to pupils.
The government has blamed the slow vetting process on a lack of funding and backlogs at the department of justice and constitutional development, which does the actual verification. Meanwhile, a teacher union said teachers should not be financially burdened to pay for the vetting.
