Faculty of Education

Secondary Warehouse

Q21a Legal Responsibilities

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Documents
Professional Standards for Qualified Teacher Status - Help Guide
Within this document you will find useful ideas to help you with the QTS standards.
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Working Together to Safeguard Children
A guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.
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Safeguarding Children in Education
This document is about the duty of LEAs, schools of all kinds, and Further Education Institutions to have arrangements for carrying out their functions with a view to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
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Media Files
Secondary Health and Safety: Inside
This programme provides health and safety guidance on life inside schools, with advice ranging from training staff who pick up heavy objects to preventing pupils from racing through corridors.
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Online Resources & Support
Education, the law and you
Teachers work within a legal framework which gives rights to and places duties on those within the education service. It is also a requirement of the DfES that primary and secondary teachers assessed for Qualified Teacher Status “are aware of, and work within, the statutory framework relating to teachers’ responsibilities.”
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