The Education (School Teacher Performance Management) (England) Regulations 2006

Use and retention of statements

34.—(1) The authority shall retain the reviewee’s statement for a minimum period of 6 years from the date on which the cycle to which it relates ends.

(2) The authority shall have regard to the results of the review recorded in the reviewee’s statement pursuant to regulation 32 when exercising any discretion in relation to his pay.

(3) The reviewee’s line manager or, where he has more than one, each of his line managers shall be provided with access to the reviewee’s plan recorded in the statement, upon request, where this is necessary to enable him to discharge his line management responsibilities.

(4) Where a reviewee pursues an appeal in relation to the contents of his statement, the authority shall provide anyone hearing that appeal with access to that statement.

(5) Where a reviewee transfers from one authority to another authority part-way through his cycle, the authority shall transfer the reviewee’s statement for that cycle, together with any evidence gathered concerning his performance during that cycle, to the new authority, upon receipt of a written request from the reviewee.

(6) Where a reviewee becomes employed by another authority in a school or the governing body of a school part-way through his cycle, the authority shall transfer the reviewee’s statement for that cycle, together with any evidence gathered concerning his performance during that cycle, to the new authority or governing body, as the case may be, upon receipt of a written request from the reviewee.

(7) Where a reviewee employed by an authority in a school or the governing body of a school becomes an unattached teacher part-way through his cycle, the authority or governing body, as the case may be, shall transfer the reviewee’s statement for that cycle, together with any evidence gathered concerning his performance during that cycle, to the new authority, upon receipt of a written request from the reviewee.