Teacher Training Agency (Additional Functions) (No. 2) Order 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 2174

EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

Teacher Training Agency (Additional Functions) (No. 2) Order 2000

Made

8th August 2000

Laid before Parliament

10th August 2000

Coming into force

1st September 2000

Being of the opinion that the Teacher Training Agency may, having regard to their general objectives, appropriately discharge the additional function hereby conferred and having carried out such consultation as appears to him to be appropriate pursuant to section 16(3) of the Education Act 1994(1), the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 16(1) of that Act, hereby makes the following Order—

1.  This Order may be cited as the Teacher Training Agency (Additional Functions) (No. 2) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 1st September 2000.

2.—(1) In this Order—

“authority” means a local education authority;

“graduate teacher” means an unqualified teacher who—

(a)

has been granted an authorisation under Part II of Schedule 2 to the Education (Teachers' Qualifications and Health Standards) (England) Regulations 1999(2), or

(b)

participates in a training programme referred to in paragraph 9 of Schedule 3 to those Regulations; and

“school which has a delegated budget” means a school which has a delegated budget within the meaning of Part II of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998(3).

(2) In this Order, a reference to employing a graduate teacher includes engaging a graduate teacher to provide his services as a teacher otherwise than under a contract of employment.

3.  In addition to their other functions the Teacher Training Agency may pay grants by way of incentives to encourage the bodies or institutions referred to in article 4 to recruit, employ and secure the provision of training for graduate teachers seeking to become qualified teachers, subject to any terms or conditions which the Agency would be able to impose under section 5 of the Education Act 1994 if the grants were payable under that section.

4.  The bodies or institutions are—

(a) the governing body of a school maintained by an authority which has a delegated budget;

(b) an authority;

(c) the governing body of a special school not maintained by an authority; and

(d) the person maintaining a city technology college, city college for the technology of the arts or city academy.

Jacqui Smith

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department for Education and Employment

8th August 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order confers on the Teacher Training Agency, established under section 1 of the Education Act 1994, the additional function of paying grants as incentives to encourage the governing bodies of maintained schools and non-maintained special schools, local education authorities, city technology colleges, city colleges for the technology of the arts and city academies to recruit, employ and secure the provision of training for graduate teachers. Graduate teachers are unqualified teachers participating in employment-based training designed to lead to the award of qualified teacher status.

(1)

1994 c. 30. By virtue of section 1(3) of that Act and article 2 of and Schedule 1 to the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672), the Teacher Training Agency shall not do anything in relation to Wales, or institutions or students in Wales, except at the request of the National Assembly for Wales.

(2)

S.I. 1999/2166.

(3)

1998 c. 31.