A record 183 teachers were struck off last year for shocking misconduct – including sleeping with pupils and being drunk on the job, a MailOnline investigation has revealed.

The damning cases, brought before the Teaching Regulation Agency watchdog, saw educators accused of bombarding students with explicit messages, pursuing inappropriate relationships, and failing in their duty to protect children.

The number of teachers struck off the profession’s register in 2024 – equivalent to more than 15 each month – comes as complaints from parents surge.

One jaw-dropping case involved a headteacher whose pupils had sex, drank alcohol and carried knives during a foreign ski trip.

Justine Drury, 52, organised the holiday to Switzerland for a dozen pupils from CP Riverside School in Nottingham, during which one girl claimed to have had sex with three boys.

Another girl was said to have accepted £30 to have sex with a boy, while groups of the teenagers were also involved in shoplifting and stealing bottles of spirits from their hotel.

Drury was banned from teaching indefinitely after the Teacher Regulation Agency watchdog ruled she should have called off the trip and failed in her safeguarding responsibilities.

The panel concluded Mrs Drury had failed to adequately protect pupils, adding it saw ‘no evidence to suggest that she has any remorse or that she has learnt from her errors’.

Justine Drury, 52, organised a holiday to Switzerland for a dozen pupils from CP Riverside School in Nottingham , during which one girl claimed to have had sex with three boys

Head teacher Mrs Justine Drury, 52, organised the ski trip for a dozen pupils to Switzerland

The panel said despite Pupil A’s claim of ‘potential non-consensual sexual activity’ on the first day of the trip, Mrs Drury did nothing to prevent the risk of sexual activity happening again

The publicly-available disciplinary cases also include a primary teacher was struck off after moonlighting as a £1,600-a-night escort.

Samantha Barguss, 30, was teaching infants at Hall Green Infant School in Birmingham when her saucy second job was exposed in an anonymous letter.

Barguss also admitted posting inappropriate images and videos of herself on the internet having sex, telling followers: ‘I love my job and I desire nothing more than to gratify you in every way possible.’

TRA panel chair Terry Hyde said of the footage: ‘The still images of the movies appeared to show Ms Barguss engagingin sexual intercourse.

‘The images within the gallery section of the profile showed Ms Barguss’ body from a range of angles, whilst she was wearing minimal clothing.’

Barguss said she thought her adult profile would be a ‘safe and discreet’ and keep ‘private and work life apart’.

Sex-obsessed Kandice Barber was struck off in January last year after grooming a boy aged 15 and having sex with him in a field after school.

Married Barber, 39, sent the youngster sordid topless pictures on Snapchat and X-rated footage of herself performing a sex act.

Ms Samantha Barguss (pictured) has been struck off over her outrageous behaviour at Hall Green Infant School, in Birmingham

Kandice Barber (pictured with ex  husband Daniel), now 38, was jailed for six years and two months in 2021 after being convicted of grooming a 15-year-old

Barber’s ex husband Danny Barber, 41, said it had been her dream to succeed in teaching but ‘she has no place around anyone’s children.’

Kandice Barber had a promising career ahead of her but abused her trust by seducing an impressionable 15-year-old boy into having sex with her in a field

The mother-of-three, who worked as form tutor at a school in Princes Risborough, Bucks, was banned from the profession after being jailed for six years.

In September, a teacher at the Princess of Wales’s former school was struck off for three years over inappropriate conduct with pupils.

Dale Wills, 42, who taught music at Marlborough College from 2019 to 2021, bombarded two pupils with 7,000 messages and told another: ‘Love you’.

A disciplinary hearing heard how he also bought vapes for a pupil and hinted that he would stab a colleague at the elite £51,000-a-year school.

David Goode, an organ teacher at Eton College, was banned having used his work laptop to search for images of ‘gay little boys’.

The former housemaster, 52, made 229 searches for terms including ‘cute Thai boys’ and ‘Algerian gay boys’ in 2021. Goode, considered one of the country’s leading organists, admitted his actions were sexually-motivated.

While teacher Robyn Hedges pestered a pupil to talk about her thongs, other favourite underwear and shaving.

The 31-year-old also discussed body piercing, vaping and relationships with the girl on Instagram.

The scathing report in July concluded: ‘Instead of teaching the dangers of social media to young children taking their initial steps into the online world, she actively exposed them to such risks.’

Referrals to the disciplinary body the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) rose by 62 per cent between April 2023 and March last year – driven by an increase in complaints from ‘members of the public’.

Of 1,684 complains, the watchdog investigated 625 cases and struck off 157 teachers, up from 137 the previous year.

Andrew ‘Drew’ Povey, former executive head of Harrop Fold School, Worsley, was accused of ‘off-rolling’ three pupils before the January 2018 census to boost performance data

Andrew Povey on Educating Greater Manchester in 2017 (pictured) – he helped turn the school around after his stewardship saw it rated by Ofsted as ‘good’ in contrast to a government official telling the chairman of governors it was ‘the worst school in the country’ in 2003

Prohibition orders ban teachers from working in any school, sixth form college, children’s home or youth accommodation in England.

In 2024, shamed teachers were hauled to gross misconduct hearing for faking exam results, dealing drugs and turning up to lessons intoxicated.

A headteacher who starred in Channel 4 reality hit Educating Greater Manchester was hit with a teaching ban in November.

Drew Povey, 47, removed pupils from the register at Harrop Fold School, in Salford, in a process known as ‘off-rolling’.

The TRA panel said the move was likely to have manipulated the school’s GCSE performance.

Private school teacher Nicole Finch, 32, was banned for five years after being caught smuggling drugs and seven phones into a prison.

While Essex sixth-form teacher Stephanie Szymanska, 36, was banned for at least three years after being dealing cocaine.

Primary school miss Isabel Lawrence was spotted ‘slurring her words’ in front of pupils at Tyndale school, Oxford.

She had popped out for a bottle of wine during morning break – and returned ‘spaced out’ to teach Year 4.

She said she had struggled dealing with children from the ‘tough inner-city school’.

Primary school teacher Matthew Clare, 37, was banned after police unmasked a ‘barbaric’ sexist WhatsApp chat called ‘Nip Clockers’.

Clare, a teacher in Upminster, East London, received messages branding female collagues as ‘kinky sluts’, ‘pure filth’ and ‘f***buddy material’, the TRA heard.

Drew Povey (centre) starred in television programme, ‘Educating Greater Manchester’

The teacher said he was ‘ashamed’ and admitted the messages gave the impression he was regularly ogling his female colleagues breasts.

One read: ‘Clocked the Ns massively coming on from lunch. This cold weather.’ Another received said: ‘That rack alone makes her top 2 material’.

Last month, a survey found that one in seven secondary school teachers faced an allegation from a pupil or parent in the past year.

A survey of almost 8,000 staff found 14 per cent had been accused of wrongdoing.

The most common type of complaint was from pupils – affecting 10 per cent of teachers.

Men were more likely to be accused than women, with 12 per cent getting a complaint from a pupil compared to six per cent of female teachers.

Education body Edept, which carried out the poll, said many of the complaints were ‘vexatious’.

A TRA annual report said: ‘The primary purposes of a prohibition order are to protect pupils, maintain public confidence in the teaching profession, and support schools in upholding proper standards of conduct.’