26-27/012

We refer to your request for information (FOI 26-27/012) dated 10 June 2026 which we have handled under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA).

You asked:

“Please detail, per year, the number of Fitness to Teach hearings the GTCS has held

over the last 10 years. (1st January 2016 - 31st January 2026)

Please detail, per year, the number of cases where the teacher has been deemed unfit to teach or has any sort of sanction imposed on them.

Please detail, per year, the number of cases where anonymity has been granted, where the teacher has been deemed unfit to teach or any sort of sanction imposed on them.”

Our response:

We have provided this information in the tables below. Please note that this reporting is based on the registration year for GTC Scotland which runs from April 01 to March 31 of the following year.

By way of advice and assistance, you might be interested in an Insight Report on our website as well as reporting on teacher conduct referrals. Additionally, our Disclosure Log shows previous responses to freedom of information requests with a search functionality for public use.

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Please note that, to provide you with information from 2016/17 under Table 3 we conducted a search and do hold records related to your request. We consider that these will need to be interrogated individually. Due to the time and resources, it would take to do so, we have determined that section 9(1) of FOISA would apply. See our detailed Fees Notice below:

The number of records identified by the search: 202

Actual cost of staff time at hourly rate of member of staff: £15.00

Number of hours required to complete the search: 202 records at roughly 5 minutes per record for a total of 16.83 hours

Total cost: 16 hours multiplied by £15.00 per hour = £252.50

Less first £100 = £152.50

Amount chargeable (10% of total) = £15.25

Should you wish to make payment, please let us know and we can arrange for bank details to be shared with you.

Right to review and appeal:

You may request a review of how we have dealt with this information request if you are dissatisfied with this response. This can be done by contacting us at informationgovernance@gtcs.org.uk, describing your original request and explaining the basis for your dissatisfaction. You have 40 working days from receipt of this response to submit a review request.

Once the review process has been completed, if you are still dissatisfied, you have six months in which you can apply to the Scottish Information Commissioner for a decision. See the Scottish Information Commissioner’s guidance on making an appeal for information about how to do this.