Education (Wales) Act 2014
PART 1
INTRODUCTION
1
Overview
PART 2
EDUCATION WORKFORCE
Education Workforce Council
2
Education Workforce Council
3
Aims of the Council
4
Functions of the Council
5
Power to add functions
6
Directions
Provision of advice and promotion of careers
7
Provision of advice by the Council
8
Promotion of careers
Registration of education workforce
9
Register
10
Eligibility for registration
11
Appeals against refusal of registration
12
Registration fees
13
Registration: further provision
Requirements to be satisfied to provide services
14
School teachers and school learning support workers
15
Further education teachers
16
Further education learning support workers
Induction and appraisal of registered persons
17
Requirement to undertake period of induction
18
Induction assessment standards
19
Appeals against induction decisions
20
Induction: intervention powers
21
Induction: interpretation
22
Special provision for maintained schools with delegated budgets
23
Appraisal of registered persons
Code of conduct and practice for registered persons
24
Code of conduct and practice
25
Code of conduct and practice: further provision
Disciplinary functions of the Council
26
Disciplinary functions
27
Disciplinary functions: interpretation
28
Disciplinary functions: further provision
29
Conditional registration orders
30
Suspension orders
31
Prohibition orders
32
Appeals against disciplinary orders
Information duties
33
Council to maintain records about certain persons
34
Supply of information: Ministers
35
Supply of information: the Council
36
Supply of information: employers
37
Supply of information: agents and contractors
38
Directions to secure compliance with information duties
Transitional and transitory provision
39
Transfer of registrations of persons already registered
40
Transitory matters relating to eligibility for registration
Interpretation of Part 2
41
Interpretation of Part 2
PART 3
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISION
Term and holiday dates and times of school sessions
42
Dates of terms and holidays and times of school sessions
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education and Training in Wales
43
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education and Training in Wales
Local authority education functions - intervention
44
Local authority education functions exercisable by the persons directed
PART 4
GENERAL PROVISION
45
Status as an Education Act
46
Ancillary provision
47
Orders and regulations
48
Minor and consequential amendments and repeals
49
General interpretation
50
Commencement
51
Short title
SCHEDULE 1
EDUCATION WORKFORCE COUNCIL
Status
1
(1) The Council— (a) is not a servant or agent...
Powers
2
(1) The Council may do anything which is calculated to...
Membership
3
(1) The Council is to have 14 members.
Membership: further provision
4
(1) The Welsh Ministers may by regulations make provision relating...
Tenure
5
(1) The term of office of a member is such...
Removal from office
6
(1) A member may be removed from office by a...
Remuneration, allowances and expenses of members
7
(1) The Council may— (a) pay to its members such...
Chairing member
8
(1) The Council must elect a chairing member from amongst...
Chief officer and other staff
9
(1) The Council must have a chief officer.
Schemes relating to remuneration etc.
10
(1) The Council must— (a) prepare a scheme setting out...
Eligibility for superannuation scheme
11
(1) Employment with the Council is among the kinds of...
Committees generally
12
(1) The Council— (a) may establish committees for any purpose,...
Delegation of functions
13
(1) The Council may authorise the chairing member or any...
Proceedings
14
(1) The Council may regulate its own procedure and that...
Application of seal
15
The application of the seal of the Council is to...
Proof of documents
16
Every document purporting to be an instrument made or issued...
Finance
17
The Welsh Ministers may make grants to the Council of...
Accounting officer
18
(1) The Welsh Ministers may designate a person to act...
Audit committee
19
(1) The Council must establish a committee (an “audit committee”)...
Audit committee: membership
20
(1) The audit committee is to consist of—
Accounts and external audit
21
(1) The Council must— (a) keep proper accounts and proper...
Annual reports
22
(1) No later than 30 November after the end of...
SCHEDULE 2
CATEGORIES OF REGISTRATION
1
The first column in table 1 sets out the categories...
Changing the categories of registered worker
2
(1) The Welsh Ministers may by order add, amend or...
Interpretation
3
In this Schedule— “ adult ” (“ oedolyn ”) means...
SCHEDULE 3
CHANGES TO OTHER LEGISLATION
PART 1
MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS
Education Act 2002 (c. 32)
1
(1) The 2002 Act is amended as follows.
School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 1)
2
In Schedule 4 to the School Standards and Organisation (Wales)...
PART 2
REPEALS
3
The enactments mentioned in the first column are repealed to...
SCHEDULE 4
INDEX OF DEFINED WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS
The words and expressions in the first column of table...

Education (Wales) Act 2014
2014 anaw 5
An Act of the National Assembly for Wales to make provision about the Education Workforce Council (formerly the General Teaching Council for Wales); to extend the registration, qualification and training requirements of the education workforce; to make provision about the determination of school term and holiday dates in Wales; to make provision in connection with appointments to Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education and Training in Wales; and for connected purposes.
[12 May 2014]
Having been passed by the National Assembly for Wales and having received the Assent of Her Majesty, it is enacted as follows:-