Stuart Street

Introduction

Stuart Street (born 18 July 1996) is a former PE teacher at Queen Elizabeth’s Academy in Mansfield, part of the Diverse Academies Trust, who was banned from teaching for life by the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) in August 2025. His dismissal from the profession followed criminal convictions at Nottingham Crown Court for making, possessing and distributing indecent images of children, for which he was sentenced to seventeen months in prison. A TRA professional conduct panel found the allegations against him proved, and the Secretary of State’s decision maker prohibited him from teaching indefinitely with no provision for review.

Background Information

Street was employed by Queen Elizabeth’s Academy (part of the Diverse Academies Trust) from December 2019 as a PE teacher. The TRA decision records his teacher reference number as 1852260 and his TRA reference as 20503, and lists his former employer as Queen Elizabeth’s Academy, Mansfield. The panel noted that he had no previous regulatory findings, and that there was no evidence of his contribution to the profession before it.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Adjudicated vs. alleged. Street’s convictions were entered in a criminal court and are a matter of record, certified by an officer of Nottingham Crown Court. He initially denied the allegations — telling police in interview that he had no involvement with the material found on his phone, and pleading not guilty on the claim that his phone had been hacked — before changing his pleas to guilty in October 2022. He later admitted the TRA allegation in a signed statement of agreed facts, and the panel accepted the certificate of conviction as conclusive proof of the conviction and the facts necessarily implied by it.

On 12 October 2021, police arrested Street on his arrival at the school, “having received information which suggested that Mr Street may have been involved in the distribution of an indecent image of a child via a social media application”. Forensic searches of his electronic devices found a number of indecent and extreme images on his mobile phone, including a video of a girl assessed by police to be between 10 and 12 years old being sexually penetrated by an adult male; drawings of girls aged between 8 and 10 engaged in sexual activity with an adult male, one of which included a rope around the girl’s neck; an image of an adult male cutting his own genitals; and an image of a child known to Street, originally innocent in nature, which had been manipulated to appear sexual. None of the images found by the police were of pupils at schools where Street had taught.

Police also found evidence that indecent images had been shared from Street’s phone using various messaging applications. There were conversations in which the user profile on his phone had purported to be a young girl and asked recipients to further share indecent images sent from that phone, and a conversation in which it asked a recipient what it was like to have sex with a child. As a result of being informed of the police investigation, the school suspended Street and made a referral to the TRA. He was charged on 12 January 2022 with a number of offences relating to indecent and extreme images.

On 5 December 2022, at Nottingham Crown Court, Street was convicted on his guilty pleas of six offences: two counts of making an indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph of children, two counts of distributing indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of children, both contrary to section 1(a) of the Protection of Children Act 1978; possessing prohibited images of children contrary to section 62(1) of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009; and possession of an extreme pornographic image contrary to section 63(1)(7)(b) of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008. The panel, sitting at a virtual meeting on 13 August 2025 held without a hearing, treated the certificate of conviction as conclusive proof and found the allegations proven, amounting to a conviction for a relevant offence.

Public Reaction and Consequences

At a sentencing hearing on 20 April 2023 at Nottingham Crown Court, Street was sentenced to 17 months’ immediate custody. He was made subject to notification requirements under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 — commonly referred to as being placed on the sex offenders register — and the court also made a Sexual Harm Prevention Order with conditions restricting his use of the internet and electronic devices. The Probation Service assessed him as being of “moderate risk of further online offending”.

Street signed a statement of agreed facts with the TRA’s legal representatives on 11 February 2025, admitting the allegation and that it amounted to a conviction of a relevant offence. The panel — Miss Louisa Munton in the chair, with lay panellists Mr Paul Millett and Mrs Pamela Thompson — noted that his actions were deliberate and that he was not acting under duress, while also recording his eventual guilty pleas, his engagement with the regulatory process, and sentencing-hearing evidence of developing insight through the Lucy Faithfull Foundation. Describing his conduct as involving “viewing and distributing images of child abuse”, it found the public interest outweighed his interests and recommended a prohibition order with immediate effect and no review period. On 20 August 2025, decision maker Marc Cavey, acting on behalf of the Secretary of State, decided that Street is prohibited from teaching indefinitely, with no review period and no entitlement to apply for restoration of his eligibility to teach.

Current Status

Street’s prohibition has been in force since the decision of 20 August 2025. He cannot teach in any school, sixth form college, relevant youth accommodation or children’s home in England, and he is not entitled to apply for restoration of his eligibility to teach. His right of appeal to the High Court, which ran for 28 days from the date he was given notice of the order, has long since lapsed.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The prohibition order is a permanent bar: it applies for life and contains no provision under which Street may ever seek to return to teaching in England. Combined with his prison sentence, his placement on the sex offenders register and the internet and device restrictions of his Sexual Harm Prevention Order, the outcome ends his career in the profession he entered in December 2019. The decision maker gave considerable weight to the seriousness of misconduct which resulted in a term of imprisonment and the risk posed to the future wellbeing of pupils.

Sources

• Teaching Regulation Agency, “Mr Stuart Street: Professional conduct panel meeting outcome” — panel decision and reasons on behalf of the Secretary of State, published August 2025. source