HL Deb 28 July 1999 vol 604 c195WA
Baroness Seccombe

asked Her Majesty's Government:

How many inadequate teachers have been dismissed using the fast track procedure. [HL3834]

The Minister of State, Department for Education and Employment (Baroness Blackstone)

Teacher dismissals are not recorded centrally. The National Employers' Organisation for School Teachers (NEOST) is monitoring the implementation and use of the new outline capability procedure for teachers. A NEOST survey of the use of the new procedure has so far received responses from just over 50 per cent, of LEAs in England and Wales and these are currently being collated and analysed. In September my right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Education and Employment will receive powers under the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 to provide statutory guidance for governing bodies and, where necessary, impose appropriate staff capability procedures on schools. He will continue to monitor the situation to see whether any use of these powers will be necessary.