Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 36570
Teachers: Disciplinary Proceedings
Tabled: 7 March 2025
Answered: 18 March 2025
Question
Cameron Thomas
Independent — Tewkesbury
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that teachers have access to accompaniment by professionally trained companions during (a) disciplinary and (b) grievance hearings.
Answer
Catherine McKinnellThe Employment Relations Act (ERA) 1999 states that teachers, like any other workers, are entitled to be accompanied by a colleague, a trade union employee or an official accredited by a trade union if called to a disciplinary or grievance meeting by thei...
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