To ask for help in how to address this with school?

Do not copy anyone in to that email other than Head and DSL.

No one else in the school should know at this stage. What if HOY is a mate of the teacher concerned? Better not to take the risk of them getting warned. There is a process and Head and DSL are the process.

If you are unhappy later on you can escalate then.

All guns blazing and straight to the head teacher.

I’ve never seen a safeguarding policy which didn’t state that if staff had concern about another member of staff they don’t go to the DSL, they inform the head teacher straight away. Did the DSL pass your complaint to the head? As soon as you told them, it should have been the head teacher dealing with it.

It’s irrelevant in this situation that she’s 18. You are entitled to get involved. As a 6th form college they will have to listen to you. Email the headteacher and safeguarding lead.

No. He will deny it. The people to contact are the people who will remind him that after allegations were made last time he is damn lucky to still have a job.

So form tutor, HOY, Safeguarding lead, HT I would copy them all in on the email. I would also speak to the HOY in person.

Do not contact the teacher & give him any idea what is coming so he can concoct a story

The details of the DSL should be on the school website.

I would write an email now to that address, copy in the Head but no one else.

Outline what occurred, names, date, time, location

Write what your daughter said, exactly as you remember it, word for word. Don't paraphrase.

Ask to be contacted to arrange a formal meeting first thing tomorrow.

And I also echo an above poster, do not go to him at all, stay well clear. Head to the professionals mentioned above.

I hope your daughter is OK, how awful!

It’s very worrying that he is still in post after the previous incident. I would be very concerned that the school did not deal with it. You need to report this to both the SG lead and the LADO. Put everything in emails so you have a trail. You should always get a full response to safeguarding concerns and if you are not happy you can escalate.

The school/college will have designated safeguard leads, which you should be able to find on their website, usually.

This is a time you want to follow processes put in place as much as possible.

Most schools/sixth forms will have a very clear safeguarding policy which tells you who to raise concerns with. Usually if it is a staff member the concern goes straight to the head. I would call in the morning and ask to speak to the head (or whoever your policy states should be informed when the concern is a staff member) as a matter of urgency. Have a call with them and follow up with an email.

However if you have no faith that they will deal with this appropriately as they have already had concerns raised about this member of staff and nothing seems to have been done, then I would go straight to the local authority LADO whose role it is to look into it further. This is the escalation you need if you feel you are not being taken seriously.

I am a former teacher and there is just never a situation where I am going to go up to a child and ask them to meet me 'for a chat,' in a classroom or any other variation.

My year 11s would sometimes come and work with me, or see me at lunch, but that was a class-wide suggestion, and the doors were open/more than one of them etc.

Or sometimes I might unexpectedly end up with an upset/stressed child and need to help them/talk to them away from anyone, but again, professional measures taken and straight after it goes to the safeguarding team or whatever action I needed to take so there is a clear record.

Whatever is happening with his teaching/interactions outside of the classroom, perhaps get your DD to make a factual timeline/what was said, so you are clear on all the points of concern. It sounds like you have good ideas and are taking action to show the urgent need for escalation.

No

It almost seems like he might enjoy that attention and also give him time to come up with a plausible excuse before management talk to him.

Honestly a call first thing asking for a meeting with head of sixth form and DSL is what I'd be doing.

He's had a warning and because he's got away with it, it makes me worry that he's ramping things up. I'd err on the side of caution because frankly these things do happen and his behaviour is very off.

Seconding the advice to go in all guns blazing on this one.

Email to safeguarding lead at school (should be on the website) copying the safeguarding team at the council, imo, to insist on a meeting.

No don't do that. Go above him, don't go to him.

He needs to be dealt with properly.

I would call the local safeguarding team - if you google your area +safeguarding, you’ll be able to speak with them tomorrow.

school clearly are not capable of dealing with this effectively.

Email a complaint to safeguard lead, cc in headteacher, chair of governors, head of sixth form.

Have it all written in a clear order. State witnesses of her friends were with her. State times it happened.

I'd question whether anything was actually referred to the police if the staff member wasn't ever sent home pending investigation, so would reference that concern in the email, if the safeguarding lead said that had happened

Doesn't matter if she's 18 and in sixth form or 20 and in university, he is in a position of authority over her in an educational setting and this is inappropriate and gross misconduct.

Phone call followed up by an email

I would call them and insist on a meeting AND send an e-mail to back it up and for a paper trail.

I would go over what happened very calmly with your daughter, so you have the full facts.Then reassure her this is wrong, she is a schoolgirl and her attention at school should be entirely on her academic development, plans for the future and her social life with friends. She should be shouldn't have to deal with it, your job is to protect her and you will handle it. But if she wants to attend a meeting or write an email, I'd support her in that and go over the details with her, keeping them factual and specific.

I'd then ask for an urgent meeting with the head, HoY, form tutor and safeguarding team and go over everything she told you. Tell them he is clearly incapable to sticking to the rules they have set and you will take it up with the governors and possibly the police if he doesn't stop harassing her. I would not leave the meeting until they promise to take action immediate action that you think is appropriate. Record the meeting and ask them to send you an email outlining their promise while you are in the room. Or you send them one while you are sitting there, outlining their promises and the scheduled deadlines for implementing them.

OP, this is one of the only times I'd say, especially on Mumsnet, that yes indeed you can go in all guns blazing.
How totally unacceptable that this teacher thought it would be to speak to your daughter after all this had gone on.
And why her in particular? Does he even teach her now?