The General Teaching Council for England (Registration of Teachers) Regulations 2000

Supply of information to employers

16.—(1) Subject to paragraph (5), the Council shall if requested by an employer or prospective employer to whom this paragraph applies of—

(a) a registered teacher; or

(b) an unregistered person about whom they maintain records in accordance with an order under section 7(1) and (4) of the 1998 Act,

supply that employer or prospective employer with the information set out in Schedule 2 in respect of the teacher or person concerned.

(2) Paragraph (1) applies to an employer or prospective employer who is—

(a) a local education authority;

(b) the governing body of a school maintained by a local education authority;

(c) the governing body of a non-maintained special school;

(d) the proprietor of an independent school;

(e) an institution within the higher education sector; or

(f) an institution within the further education sector.

(3) The following shall be treated as an employer or prospective employer to whom paragraph (1) applies—

(a) a local education authority where the employer or prospective employer is the governing body of a school maintained by that authority (whether or not the governing body has made a request under paragraph (1));

(b) the appropriate diocesan authority in relation to a Church of England or Roman Catholic Church school (within the meaning of section 142 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998) where the employer or prospective employer is the governing body of the school or the local education authority maintaining the school (whether or not the governing body or the authority have made a request under paragraph (1)); and

(c) the Ministry of Defence in relation to a person appointed, or being considered for appointment, as a teacher at a school maintained or assisted by the Ministry of Defence.

(4) A person to whom paragraph (1) applies, or who is to be treated as such a person, shall not disclose information supplied under this regulation to any person other than the teacher or person to whom the information relates.

(5) Information may only be supplied under this regulation for reasons relating to a person’s employment or prospective employment as a teacher.

(6) Before supplying information under this regulation, the Council must be satisfied that the person making the request proposes to use the information for the purposes referred to in paragraph (5).