It may be appropriate to remove a teacher from the Register12 or refuse their application for registration13 where most or all of the following indicating factors are present:
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Once the teacher has been removed from the Register or refused registration, the teacher remains removed or refused unless and until a (further) registration application is made by them and a Fitness to Teach Panel is satisfied at a hearing that the application should be granted in line with the separate practice statement on subsequent registration applications. Registration following removal or refusal by a Fitness to Teach panel is not automatic and is not at all guaranteed. A person will only ever be granted registration where they demonstrate to a panel’s satisfaction that they are now fit to teach14.
Period of prohibition
Where a removal or refusal decision is reached, a panel has to decide how long the teacher should be prohibited from making a registration application subsequent to this. The period of prohibition can be set at up to 2 years15. In order to ensure that a generally consistent approach is adopted in this respect, panels may regard:
- 6 months as an appropriate starting point
- 2 years as the period that is applied in the majority of cases where registration removal or refusal is determined to be the appropriate disposal
It must be emphasised that the above is general guidance only. A panel should always set the period of time according to what it considers appropriate based on the circumstances of the case, and this may mean departing from the general parameters indicated above.
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