These Regulations specify work that may be carried out in schools by qualified teachers and persons who satisfy specified requirements. The requirements to be satisfied are specified in Schedule 2.

Schedule 2 to these Regulations provides for those persons who were formerly mentioned in Schedule 2 to the Education (Teachers' Qualifications and Health Standards) (England) Regulations 1999 (SI 1999/2166) to carry out specified work in schools. Paragraph 10 of Schedule 2 to these Regulations also provides for prescribed persons who are not qualified teachers to carry out specified work in schools if the conditions mentioned in that paragraph are satisfied.

Subject to the exceptions mentioned in Schedule 3, these Regulations also require qualified teachers carrying out work specified in regulation 6 in schools to be fully registered with the General Teaching Council for England.