Teaching standards, misconduct and practice

Requirements for teacher practice and conduct. Conduct hearings, dealing with serious misconduct, teacher appraisals, raising concerns.

Services

Report serious teacher misconduct

How to report a teacher - what counts as serious misconduct, what information to include in your report, when you may need to attend a teacher misconduct hearing.
Teacher misconduct: referral form

Referral forms for an allegation of serious misconduct by a teacher.

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Guidance and regulation

Teachers' standards
- Guidance
- 13 December 2021
- Department for Education
Teacher misconduct: attend a professional conduct panel hearing or meeting
- Detailed guide
- 21 November 2024
- Teaching Regulation Agency
Teacher misconduct: regulating the teaching profession
- Detailed guide
- 21 November 2024
- Teaching Regulation Agency
Barring unsuitable individuals from managing independent schools
- Guidance
- 8 June 2022
- Department for Education
Teacher appraisal and capability
- Guidance
- 29 July 2024
- Department for Education

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News and communications

Teacher misconduct panel outcome: Mr Mark Craster -Chambers
- 22 November 2024
- Teaching Regulation Agency
- Decision
Teacher Misconduct Panel Outcome: Mr Ashley Nixon
- 15 November 2024
- Teaching Regulation Agency
- Decision
Teacher misconduct panel outcome: Mr Lian Laidlaw (previously Ian Featherstone)
- 15 November 2024
- Teaching Regulation Agency
- Decision
Teacher misconduct panel outcome: Miss Nicola McCarthy
- 13 November 2024
- Teaching Regulation Agency
- Decision
Teacher Misconduct Panel Outcome: Mr Daniel Jones
- 12 November 2024
- Teaching Regulation Agency
- Decision

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Research and statistics

Teachers in primary and secondary schools: TALIS 2018
- 23 March 2020
- Department for Education
- Research
Teachers in secondary schools: evidence from TALIS 2013
- 2 November 2017
- Department for Education
- Research
Teacher workload survey 2016
- 24 February 2017
- Department for Education
- Research
Teacher voice omnibus: May to July 2016 survey - DfE questions
- 20 January 2017
- Department for Education
- Research
Malpractice for GCSE and A level: summer 2016 exam series
- 13 December 2016
- Ofqual
- Official statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

Teacher misconduct: regulating the teaching profession
- 29 April 2022
- Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 14 March 2022
Teacher misconduct: the prohibition of teachers advice
- 1 February 2022
- Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 19 October 2021
Reducing teacher workload action plan
- 24 February 2017
- Department for Education
- Policy paper
DfE protocol for changes to accountability, curriculum and qualifications
- 2 October 2015
- Department for Education
- Policy paper
Teachers' professional development standard: call for evidence
- 7 September 2015
- Department for Education
- Call for evidence outcome

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

Analysis of 'specialist' and 'non-specialist' teaching in England
- 16 December 2016
- Department for Education
- Transparency
Headteacher standards: report of the review
- 19 January 2015
- Department for Education
- Corporate report

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Organisations

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