A founding member of the Headteachers’ Roundtable is to appear before a teacher conduct panel.

John Tomsett, headteacher of Huntington School, near York, who received a visit by education secretary Damian Hinds at his school in July, is to face a disciplinary hearing next week.

The hearing will take place before a professional conduct panel of the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) in Coventry. 

Teacher conduct panel

The reasons for the hearing have not been made public but relate to his former employment at a school in Eastbourne, according to the TRA website.

Mr Tomsett has taken a leave of absence from his school in York. He entered the teaching profession 29 years ago and has been a headteacher for 14 years.

The Headteachers’ Roundtable is a non-party political group operating as a thinktank, exploring policy issues from a range of perspectives.

During his visit in the summer, Mr Hinds was said to have seen how Huntington’s research school played a role in the York Schools and Academies Board, which is a collaboration between the city’s state schools and academies.

In recent years Mr Tomsett has been a regular writer for Tes.

City of York Council said that because it is a regulatory process, it would inappropriate for it to comment at this time.