THE General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) is implementing new, fitness-to-teach-rules, which will come into force on 21 August 2017.
The rules set out the procedure that is followed when GTCS investigates and determines the fitness-to-teach of registrants or applicants for registration.
The new rules were subject to a public consultation which ran from September through to the end of November 2016.
Jennifer Macdonald, GTCS director of Regulation and Legal Services, said: “The changes made will streamline our fitness-to-teach procedures, making them quicker and more targeted towards addressing risk of harm.
“The protection of the public remains central to GTCS’s fitness-to-teach processes. Our aim is to achieve new procedures that are effective, proportionate, transparent, consistent and sensitive to those involved.”
A new fitness-to-teach threshold policy is also being introduced, which sets out what GTCS investigates under its fitness-to-teach procedures.
The document provides important information for anyone wishing to make a fitness-to-teach referral to GTCS about a teacher.
Notes for editors:
Read GTCS’s response to the public consultation on the new Fitness-to-Teach rules at:
http://www.gtcs.org.uk/web/FILES/FormUploads/FTT-Rules-Consultation-Response.pdf
Read the revised GTCS Fitness-to-Teach rules 2017 at:
http://www.gtcs.org.uk/web/FILES/FormUploads/FTT-Rules-2017107969_2818.pdf
Read the Fitness-to-Teach Threshold policy at:
http://www.gtcs.org.uk/web/FILES/FormUploads/Fitness%20to%20Teach%20Threshold%20Policy107975_2819.pdf
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