School fined £15,000 after pupil is burned

Norwich private school has been fined £15,000 following an incident in which a 12-year-old boy caught fire reaching over a candle during a chemistry experiment, the BBC reports.

The pupil is reported to have spent 12 days in a special burns unit and needed skin grafts.

According to the BBC, the school admitted three health and safety breaches but was cleared of a fourth because prosecutors could not prove beyond reasonable doubt that they had failed to carry out a risk assessment before the... (34 more words)

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