From TV fame to teaching ban: The rise and fall of Drew Povey

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In the summer of 2017 a young, charismatic head teacher became a national TV star in a documentary series. This week he was banned indefinitely from teaching. Reporter Neal Keeling has been reporting on the career of Drew Povey for 14 years. Here he takes a look back at his incredible career - and his spectacular downfall. In 2004, one of the most damning Ofsted reports ever published on a Salford school said Harrop Fold High in Little Hulton had "alarmingly poor" teaching standards, below average academic achievement and disruptive pupils who were out of control.

The then 1,300-pupil school had been formed only three years earlier after the controversial merger of Joseph Eastham and Little Hulton community high schools.

The move was opposed by many parents. Ex-headteacher from Educating Greater Manchester Drew Povey speaks out after teaching ban In league tables published at the time, 25 per cent of pupils obtained five A-C grade GCSEs.

The Salford average then was 35.9 per cent. The only positive element in the Ofsted report was praise for head Vicki Devonport, who took over six months prior to the report.