The Teaching Regulation Agency should be reformed or disbanded, a union boss has said, amid warnings staff are being “left in limbo” with “untold damage” caused to their lives.
Dr Patrick Roach, general secretary of the NASUWT teaching union, this weekend urged education secretary Gillian Keegan to “take a look at the work” of the regulator, which he said was “vying to hold the mantle of bully in chief”.
A Schools Week investigation in 2021 revealed how investigations against teachers accused of wrongdoing can take years before they are resolved, with delays taking a toll on both accusers and the accused.
In his speech to NASUWT’s annual conference in Glasgow on Sunday, Roach said the system “encourages anyone to complain about a teacher – with total disregard for any notion of natural justice or respect for teachers’ employment rights”.
