Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 27144

Teachers: Qualifications

Tabled: 29 January 2025
Answered: 7 February 2025

Question

Damian Hinds

ConservativeEast Hampshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations she has received on disallowing schools from employing teachers without qualified teacher status.

Answer

Catherine McKinnell
The department has heard from schools, leaders and teachers regarding the measure in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill to require new teachers to have or be working towards qualified teacher status (QTS). This measure will reaffirm the professiona...

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