Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 16 November 2017 to Question 111788, if her Department has received reports from (a) bodies other than the National College for Teaching and Leadership and (b) other people of cases involving inappropriate exclusions and related misconduct by headteachers.

Cases of serious misconduct by teachers or headteachers which meet the test set out in the Secretary of States’s advice, are dealt with by the National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL). Any individual referring such a case to the Secretary of State will be directed to refer the case directly to the NCTL.