(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations require the employers of teachers registered with the General Teaching Council for Wales (“the Council”) and supply agencies to report cases of misconduct and incompetence to the Council other than those cases they are required to provide information about to the Independent Barring Board under the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006. They revoke the Education (Supply of Information) (Wales) Regulations 2003 which required misconduct cases to be reported to the Welsh Ministers and incompetence cases to be reported to the Council. Under these new Regulations all cases are to be reported to the Council.
Employers must make a report to the Council if they cease to use a registered teacher’s services on a specified ground or if they might have done so had that teacher not already ceased to provide his or her services. Agents must make a report to the Council if they have arranged for a registered teacher to carry out work on behalf of a local education authority, a governing body or a proprietor of an independent school and terminate those arrangements on a specified ground, or might have done so had the teacher not already terminated the arrangements or ceased to be available for work. The specified grounds are misconduct, professional incompetence and conviction of a relevant offence. A relevant offence is an offence other than one having no material relevance to a person’s fitness to be a registered teacher.
The Schedule sets out the information to be provided in the reports.