Introductory Text
PART 1 INTRODUCTION
1.Overview
PART 2 EDUCATION WORKFORCE
Education Workforce Council
2.Education Workforce Council
3.Aims of the Council
4.Functions of the Council
5.Power to add functions
6.Directions
Provision of advice and promotion of careers
7.Provision of advice by the Council
8.Promotion of careers
Registration of education workforce
9.Register
10.Eligibility for registration
11.Appeals against refusal of registration
12.Registration fees
13.Registration: further provision
Requirements to be satisfied to provide services
14.School teachers and school learning support workers
15.Further education teachers
16.Further education learning support workers
Induction and appraisal of registered persons
17.Requirement to undertake period of induction
18.Induction assessment standards
19.Appeals against induction decisions
20.Induction: intervention powers
21.Induction: interpretation
22.Special provision for maintained schools with delegated budgets
23.Appraisal of registered persons
Code of conduct and practice for registered persons
24.Code of conduct and practice
25.Code of conduct and practice: further provision
Disciplinary functions of the Council
26.Disciplinary functions
27.Disciplinary functions: interpretation
28.Disciplinary functions: further provision
29.Conditional registration orders
30.Suspension orders
31.Prohibition orders
32.Appeals against disciplinary orders
Information duties
33.Council to maintain records about certain persons
34.Supply of information: Ministers
35.Supply of information: the Council
36.Supply of information: employers
37.Supply of information: agents and contractors
38.Directions to secure compliance with information duties
Transitional and transitory provision
39.Transfer of registrations of persons already registered
40.Transitory matters relating to eligibility for registration
Interpretation of Part 2
41.Interpretation of Part 2
PART 3 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISION
Term and holiday dates and times of school sessions
42.Dates of terms and holidays and times of school sessions
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education and Training in Wales
43.Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education and Training in Wales
Local authority education functions - intervention
44.Local authority education functions exercisable by the persons directed
PART 4 GENERAL PROVISION
45.Status as an Education Act
46.Ancillary provision
47.Orders and regulations
48.Minor and consequential amendments and repeals
49.General interpretation
50.Commencement
51.Short title
SCHEDULE 1
EDUCATION WORKFORCE COUNCIL
Status
1.(1) The Council— (a) is not a servant or agent...
Powers
2.(1) The Council may do anything which is calculated to...
Membership
3.(1) The Council is to have 14 members.
Membership: further provision
4.(1) The Welsh Ministers may by regulations make provision relating...
Tenure
5.(1) The term of office of a member is such...
Removal from office
6.(1) A member may be removed from office by a...
Remuneration, allowances and expenses of members
7.(1) The Council may— (a) pay to its members such...
Chairing member
8.(1) The Council must elect a chairing member from amongst...
Chief officer and other staff
9.(1) The Council must have a chief officer.
Schemes relating to remuneration etc.
10.(1) The Council must— (a) prepare a scheme setting out...
Eligibility for superannuation scheme
11.(1) Employment with the Council is among the kinds of...
Committees generally
12.(1) The Council— (a) may establish committees for any purpose,...
Delegation of functions
13.(1) The Council may authorise the chairing member or any...
Proceedings
14.(1) The Council may regulate its own procedure and that...
Application of seal
15.The application of the seal of the Council is to...
Proof of documents
16.Every document purporting to be an instrument made or issued...
Finance
17.The Welsh Ministers may make grants to the Council of...
Accounting officer
18.(1) The Welsh Ministers may designate a person to act...
Audit committee
19.(1) The Council must establish a committee (an “audit committee”)...
Audit committee: membership
20.(1) The audit committee is to consist of—
Accounts and external audit
21.(1) The Council must— (a) keep proper accounts and proper...
Annual reports
22.(1) No later than 30 November after the end of...
SCHEDULE 2
CATEGORIES OF REGISTRATION
1.The first column in table 1 sets out the categories...
Changing the categories of registered worker
2.(1) The Welsh Ministers may by order add, amend or...
Interpretation
3.In this Schedule— “ adult ” (“ oedolyn ”) means...
SCHEDULE 3
CHANGES TO OTHER LEGISLATION
PART 1 MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS
Education Act 2002 (c. 32)
1.(1) The 2002 Act is amended as follows.
School Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 1)
2.In Schedule 4 to the School Standards and Organisation (Wales)...
PART 2 REPEALS
3.The enactments mentioned in the first column are repealed to...
SCHEDULE 4
INDEX OF DEFINED WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS
The words and expressions in the first column of table...