THE head teacher of the Chase school in Malvern, Richard Jacobs, will be leaving at the end of this month.

The announcement, confirmed by the school this morning, comes after Mr Jacobs was placed on special leave in February.

No reason was given by the school, then and now, for the moves.

But Mr Jacobs was placed on leave a week after he announced that at least 15 teaching jobs at the school would have to go because of falling pupil numbers.