Question follow-through · 36570
Teachers: Disciplinary Proceedings
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that teachers have access to accompaniment by professionally trained companions during (a) disciplinary and (b) grievance hearings.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 7 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 18 Mar 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that teachers have access to accompaniment by professionally trained companions during (a) disciplinary and (b) grievance hearings.
11 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Employment Relations Act (ERA) 1999 states that teachers, like any other workers, are entitled to be accompanied by a colleague, a trade union employee or an official accredited by a trade union if called to a disciplinary or grievance meeting by thei...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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