Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 36570

Teachers: Disciplinary Proceedings

Tabled: 7 March 2025
Answered: 18 March 2025

Question

Cameron Thomas

IndependentTewkesbury

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 McKinnell
The 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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