Tandy L’Enfant

Introduction

Tandy L’Enfant is a former lead teacher for health and social care at Joseph Whitaker School in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, who was prohibited from teaching indefinitely in August 2026 after a Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) panel found that she amended pupils’ coursework before submission and awarded grades that were not justified by their work. The case, reported on August 4, 2026, centred on a nationally accredited qualification — her coursework was sent to the exam board OCR — and ended a teaching role she had held only since September 2023. L’Enfant admitted modifying some pupils’ coursework and submitting grades not fully supported by the evidence, while the panel made no finding on a separate pupil claim about classroom television viewing.

Background Information

L’Enfant worked as lead teacher for health and social care at Joseph Whitaker School from September 2023. Joseph Whitaker School is an academy in Rainworth, near Mansfield, in Nottinghamshire. Her time in the role ended on March 15, 2024, when she began a period of sick leave. On March 27, 2024, the school commenced an internal investigation into allegations of exam malpractice by L’Enfant, and on May 10, 2024 it referred her to the Teaching Regulation Agency, the body that regulates the teaching profession in England. Her case was subsequently heard by a TRA professional conduct panel.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Adjudicated vs. alleged. The findings against L’Enfant are regulatory findings of a TRA professional conduct panel — civil-standard findings, not criminal convictions — and she was never criminally charged. She admitted amending or adding to some pupils’ coursework and submitting grades that were not fully supported by the available evidence. The TRA’s allegation that she substituted pupils’ completed work with other work was found by the panel to be supported on at least one occasion. A pupil’s claim that she “did not really teach us” and showed television shows or movies in class was not adjudicated as a finding: the panel accepted it may have happened at times but found insufficient precision or corroboration to conclude it happened in every lesson.

The panel found that L’Enfant had amended assignments before submission for assessment, that she awarded grades that were not justified, that she did not maintain actual assessment records, and that she requested pupils to sign forms confirming that work was their own before it had been completed. She admitted that she had amended or added to some pupils’ coursework, purporting it to be their own, telling the panel in writing: “I regretfully admit to modifying students’ coursework”. She also admitted to submitting grades that “were not fully supported by the available evidence”, and the panel found that she submitted grades for several pupils which their work did not support. One pupil gave evidence: “I have not submitted or finished Unit 1. But have been given a distinction which I don’t understand how”. A witness told the panel: “The work submitted by Pupil H to me does appear in the work sent to OCR (exam board) but there appears to be some significant additions to it beyond the work submitted”.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The panel’s conclusions about the gravity of the conduct were severe. It said L’Enfant had sought to “deliberately subvert the integrity” of a nationally accredited qualification, and found her actions constituted conduct that may bring the profession into disrepute. The panel said: “The misconduct involved deliberate conduct and findings of fraud and serious dishonesty.” It added: “The actions were not isolated or momentary lapses of judgement. Rather, they occurred across more than one class, involved more than one examination process and continued over a period of time.” On the classroom-teaching claim, the panel accepted the pupil’s evidence that there may have been times when the class were permitted to watch television shows, but determined there was not enough precision or corroboration of evidence to make a finding that it had happened in every lesson, and instead focused on the failings in the authentication of coursework. The outcome was a prohibition order reported on August 4, 2026.

Current Status

L’Enfant is prohibited from teaching indefinitely, which bars her from classroom teaching in England. She may apply for the prohibition order to be set aside, but not until June 17, 2031.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The prohibition order ends the health and social care teaching role L’Enfant held at Joseph Whitaker School for roughly half a year of classroom time between September 2023 and her sick leave in March 2024, and forecloses any return to teaching in England for at least the review period. In her written representation she apologised to her pupils and the school community and expressed regret at her actions. She said: “I deeply regret the decisions I made and the consequences that followed. Regardless of the circumstances I was experiencing at the time, I acknowledge that my actions fell below the professional standards expected of a teacher.” She added: “Throughout this period, I have spent considerable time reflecting on my actions and the standards expected of teachers. I fully recognise that there were moments when I should have acted differently, sought additional support, or challenged decisions more robustly.” The panel’s published characterisation — deliberate conduct, fraud and serious dishonesty across more than one class and examination process — now forms the public record she carries.