Asked by: Liam Fox (Conservative - North Somerset)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many suspended (a) headteachers, (b) deputy headteachers and (c) senior leaders have entered into confidentiality agreements in each of the last five years.
Answered by David Laws
The Department for Education does not hold data on the numbers of confidentiality agreements entered into by headteachers, deputy headteachers or senior leaders. This information would be held by individual school employers.
Settlement agreements, previously known as compromise agreements, are sometimes used when teachers leave a school. These agreements are voluntary and neither employer nor employees have to enter into them. Such agreements usually include a confidentiality clause, but they cannot be used to suppress information such as that relating to pupil safety or to prevent someone from making a protected disclosure under whistleblowing arrangements.
Asked by: Liam Fox (Conservative - North Somerset)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) headteachers, (b) deputy headteachers and (c) senior leaders have been suspended (i) without and (ii) following an Ofsted inspection in each of the last five years.
Answered by David Laws
The Department for Education does not hold data on the numbers of suspensions of headteachers, deputy headteachers and senior leaders either without or following an Ofsted inspection. This information would be held by individual school employers.
Asked by: Liam Fox (Conservative - North Somerset)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many confidentiality agreements have been entered into with members of the teaching profession (a) without and (b) following an Ofsted inspection in each of the last five years.
Answered by David Laws
The Department for Education does not hold data on the numbers of confidentiality agreements entered into by teachers without or following an Ofsted inspection. This information would be held by individual school employers.
Settlement agreements, previously known as compromise agreements, are sometimes used when teachers leave a school. These agreements are voluntary and neither employers nor employees are obliged to enter into them. Such agreements usually include a confidentiality clause, but they cannot be used to suppress information such as that relating to pupil safety, nor can they be used to prevent someone from making a protected disclosure under whistleblowing arrangements.
Asked by: Liam Fox (Conservative - North Somerset)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many suspended (a) headteachers, (b) deputy headteachers and (c) senior leaders have returned to their posts in each of the last five years.
Answered by David Laws
The Department for Education does not hold data on the numbers of suspended headteachers, deputy headteachers or senior leaders that have returned to their posts. This information would be held by individual school employers.