A CHARITY that found a paedophile a job in a North-East school is reviewing its procedures.

The Shaw Trust, a national charity that provides training and work opportunities for people who find it difficult to get a job, helped pervert Roy Dungay become a teaching assistant at a special school in the region.

The Northern Echo reported how the 56-year-old loner from Billingham, who fantasised about having sex with and killing a child, was jailed for six years at Teesside Crown Court on Friday, following sex attacks on three six-year-old girls he was teaching to read and write.

A trust spokeswoman said: "The Shaw Trust is pleased that the police and the courts have been able to deal with this situation so swiftly, and our thoughts are with the families and children whose lives have been so sadly affected by this unhappy set of circumstances.

"We have reviewed our working practices since this situation came to light, and will be taking what steps we can to tighten these up still further.

"However, we make the point that a Criminal Records Office check was undertaken and came back clear."

Sentencing Dungay, Judge Peter Armstrong told him psychiatric reports "indicate to me that you pose a very great danger to the public in the future".

The court heard Dungay left a signed confession at his home in Kennedy Gardens, Billingham.

After the case, the local education authority said it only agreed to the appointment after relevant police checks had been carried out by the Shaw Trust.

The trust spokesman said: "Clearly, schools also have processes in order to ensure the safety of their pupils, and it is not for us to comment on these."