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Teachers: Qualifications

Commons · Question 28916 · Tabled 5 Feb 2025 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 14 Feb 2025

Question

Asked by Damian Hinds

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of teachers without qualified teacher status will be exempted from requiring that status due to exemptions for maintained schools being extended to academy schools under the Children’s Wellbeing

Answer

Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 14 Feb 2025

Following implementation of the qualified teacher status (QTS) measure in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, when a teacher is recruited and commences employment with an academy, they will be required to have QTS or meet one of the exemptions set ...