The hearing’s panel decided to impose a conditional registration order on the teacher which requires him to undergo retraining in order to “update his knowledge of safeguarding children in schools”.
Once has completed the training he will be able to return to work as a teacher.
The chair of the panel Jacquie Turnbull said it had taken into account that Mr Towers had not been barred from the teaching profession by the Secretary of State for Education.
However, she added that the panel had concerns about his lack of “appropriate insight” into his behaviour after he had initially denied slapping the girl on her bottom and it was not until he was faced with a criminal trial that he had admitted doing so.