{"id":86857,"date":"2026-03-26T08:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86857"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:03:50","slug":"headteacher-at-kensington-school-spent-over-56k-on-amazon-and-train-fares-using-school-credit-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/26\/headteacher-at-kensington-school-spent-over-56k-on-amazon-and-train-fares-using-school-credit-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Headteacher at Kensington school spent over \u00a356k on Amazon and train fares using school credit card"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1Zo4kd.img?w=534&amp;h=299&amp;m=6\" alt=\"An investigation found that there had been no audit trail into Mr McPhilemy's purchases and he blamed a lack of financial procedures within the Catholic primary school\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The headteacher of a Catholic primary school in Kensington has been struck off after spending over \u00a356,000 on Amazon and train tickets using the school&#8217;s credit card. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/headteacher-at-kensington-school-spent-over-56k-on-amazon-and-train-fares-using-school-credit-card\/ar-AA1ZoeHT?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69c4e720672f4242b94cb09619514b3f&amp;ei=67\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The headteacher of a Catholic primary school in Kensington has been struck off after spending over \u00a356,000 on Amazon and train tickets&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Christopher-McPhilemy.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86859,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86857\/revisions\/86859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}