Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of teachers without qualified teacher status will be exempted from requiring that status due to exemptions for maintained schools being extended to academy schools under the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.

Following implementation of the qualified teacher status (QTS) measure in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, when a teacher is recruited and commences employment with an academy, they will be required to have QTS or meet one of the exemptions set out in regulations. The proportion of the teachers who will meet one of these exemptions and therefore not require QTS will depend on the individual circumstances of the teachers being employed and recruitment decisions made by leadership teams in academies.