A YEAR-LONG investigation into a Canon Slade teacher accused of inciting sexual activity with a pupil is to be decided in the coming days.

Prosecutors are currently weighing up whether or not there is enough evidence to charge the male teacher, who is due to answer bail tomorrow.

Meanwhile, it has emerged that the teacher has left the Bradshaw school during the course of the investigation, having initially been suspended.

The teacher was arrested almost a year ago to the day, with police thought to have moved in on him at a railway station in the town.

The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was investigated "for inappropriate communications with a pupil", according to bosses at the school.

He was subsequently bailed and rebailed several times as officers probed the allegations.

But, The Bolton News understands that progress has been made by police, with the file now in the hands of the Crown Prosecution Service.

A police source said: "We are awaiting a CPS decision on this.

"There has been some movement on the investigation in the last couple of months."

A spokesman for Canon Slade said: "The teacher in question left the employment of this school in February."

The school refused to confirm whether the member of staff had resigned or been dismissed.

At the time of the teacher's arrest, a letter was sent to parents, warning people not to discuss the matter on social media.

The letter stressed that the investigation focused on "an isolated issue with one individual" and said there had been no other incidents reported by other pupils or staff.

The arrest marked the third police investigation into the sexual behaviour of teachers at the Church of England school in the last three years.

Teacher Andrew Welsh was caught hiding in a drawer under a pupil's bed by her mother, and received a suspended sentence for inciting sexual activity with a child.

And in April 2012, science teacher Andrew Ward was jailed for downloading indecent images.

The school was marked as outstanding by the Ofsted, the government’s education watchdog after its most recent inspection.

It is one of Bolton’s top performing schools regularly producing some of the best GCSE results in the borough.