Care Standards Act 2000 (c. 14)

Part VII Protection of children and vulnerable adults

Restrictions on working with children in independent schools

100 Additional ground of complaint

(1) In subsection (1) of section 469 (notice of complaint) of the [1996 c. 56.] Education Act 1996, for paragraph (d) there shall be substituted—

“(d) the proprietor of the school or any teacher or other employee employed in the school—

(i) is unsuitable to work with children; or

(ii) is for any other reason not a proper person to be the proprietor of an independent school or (as the case may be) to be a teacher or other employee in any school;”.

(2) In subsection (2) of section 470 of that Act (determination of complaint by an Independent Schools Tribunal), for paragraph (f) there shall be substituted—

“(f) if satisfied that any person alleged by the notice of complaint to be a person who—

(i) is unsuitable to work with children; or

(ii) is for any other reason not a proper person to be the proprietor of an independent school or to be a teacher or other employee in any school,

is in fact such a person, by order disqualify that person from being the proprietor of any independent school or (as the case may be) from being a teacher or other employee in any school.”