Rashid Umran

Introduction

Rashid Umran is a former classroom teacher at Dame Ellen Pinsent School in Birmingham who was banned from teaching for life in July 2026 after being convicted at St Albans Crown Court of sixteen child sexual offences — including making indecent images of children, sexual communication with a child and inciting children to engage in sexual activity. He admitted the facts before a Teaching Regulation Agency panel, which found all allegations proved and amounting to a conviction of a relevant offence, and recommended prohibition with no review period; the Secretary of State agreed.

Background Information

Umran joined Dame Ellen Pinsent School on 1 September 2022 as a classroom teacher. On 30 August 2023 the LADO contacted the school’s head teacher to inform it that Umran had been arrested by the police and released on bail; he was suspended the following day, and on 3 September 2023 emailed the school to confirm that he had been arrested and charged. The school investigated between 15 January and 20 March 2024, and following a disciplinary hearing on 9 May 2024 made a referral to the TRA and terminated his employment. He was then prosecuted at St Albans Crown Court, where a certificate of conviction dated 13 January 2025 set out the sixteen counts. The published decision does not suggest the children involved had any connection to his school; the panel noted the offences occurred outside a school setting.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Adjudicated vs. alleged. Umran was convicted by a criminal court, and his convictions are matters of court record accepted by the TRA panel as conclusive proof; nothing in this section is an unadjudicated allegation. He admitted the facts in a signed statement of agreed facts.

On 22 October 2024, Umran was convicted at St Albans Crown Court of sixteen offences: three counts of making an indecent photograph/pseudo-photograph of a child; two counts of sexual communication with a child; one count of causing a child to watch a sexual act; two counts of causing or inciting the sexual exploitation of a child; and eight counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity. The panel noted he had pleaded guilty in the criminal proceedings. On 20 December 2024 he was sentenced to a total of 10 years and 8 months’ imprisonment, placed on the sex offender register for life and made subject to an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order. The panel found the offences concerned two children — Child A, aged 13 to 15 during the period of the offences, and Child B, who was 14 — and that his engagement with those children came while he was a teacher. He admitted the facts of all the allegations in a statement of agreed facts signed on 18 November 2025, and the case was decided without a hearing, at his own request, at a private panel meeting on 2 July 2026.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The panel found the allegations proved and treated the convictions as a relevant offence, describing criminal acts that were “clearly enormously harmful to children” and noting “no material evidence of insight, remorse, or meaningful consideration of the impact that his offending had had on the children involved.” It recorded that in a handwritten note dated 1 August 2025 Umran stated he understood he would “not ever teach again.” The sentencing judge, His Honour Judge Johnson, told him his letter of remorse was “almost all about [him]” and said he was satisfied Umran presented a risk, citing “the involvement of two children, the lengthy period of time it’s persisted for, the extremities of some of the sexual behaviour involved and your attempt to have evidence deleted.” No mainstream press coverage carrying his name has been located; the public record is the regulator’s published decision.

Current Status

The determination is dated 2 July 2026, and the decision maker acting on behalf of the Secretary of State, Stuart Blomfield, dated his decision 6 July 2026. Umran is prohibited from teaching indefinitely and cannot teach in any school, sixth-form college, relevant youth accommodation or children’s home in England. Because of the seriousness of the allegations found proved against him, the Secretary of State decided he shall not be entitled to apply for restoration of his eligibility to teach: the order carries no review period and no route back. The order takes effect from the date it is served on him. He retains a right of appeal to the High Court within 28 days of being given notice of the order. The decision was published on 6 August 2026.

Impact on Their Career/Life

Umran’s teaching career is permanently over, and the criminal consequences run alongside it: a total of 10 years and 8 months’ imprisonment, sex offender registration for life, and an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order that will surface in any future criminal record disclosure for work with children or vulnerable people. The panel found his conduct “ran entirely counter to what should have been at the very core of his practice as a teacher, being the safeguarding and wellbeing of children,” and concluded that public confidence in the profession could be seriously weakened if such conduct were not treated with the utmost seriousness. The published decision fixes all of it in searchable form: a serving teacher whose sixteen convictions for offences against two children ended both his freedom and his profession.

Sources

• Teaching Regulation Agency, “Teacher misconduct panel outcome: Mr Rashid Umran,” published 6 August 2026 — source