Key legislation includes (but is not limited to):

• Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022Link opens in a new window 
• Prevent Duty 2015Link opens in a new window

As Centre for Teacher Education works with Early Years settings, Primary and Secondary Schools, we put the safety of school pupils first when ensuring our processes for initial and ongoing vetting, training and support of trainee teachers and our Centre’s staff.

Due to the imperative to safeguard children when delivering teacher training, the Centre for Teacher Education has its own specific policy and information which can be found here:

• CTE Safeguarding Policy
• Terms of Reference for the CTE Suitability PanelLink opens in a new window

The Centre for Teacher Education also has a safeguarding concerns reporting form which can be accessed here.Link opens in a new window

Information regarding the University’s overall Safeguarding and Child Protection Policies can be found hereLink opens in a new window.

Key legislation includes (but is not limited to):

• The Equality Act 2010Link opens in a new window
• Education (Health Standards) (England) Regulations 2003 (SI 3139)Link opens in a new window
• Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (2001)Link opens in a new window

Information regarding the University's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy and work can be found hereLink opens in a new window, the Dignity at Warwick Policy is also published hereLink opens in a new window.

The University publishes information about its compliance with the Public Sector Equality Duty hereLink opens in a new window.

Staff

CTE staff work together to provide a supportive, inclusive and welcoming environment. Staff undertake mandatory training in Equality and Diversity and unconscious bias. Several staff undertake additional, optional professional development or research in areas pertinent to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.

CTE ensures that working practices of the staff in the department are inclusive and embrace diversity but we also work to instil the knowledge and value of this in our trainees, because it is the right thing to do and because teachers have regulatory duties and obligations.

Students

All students of the University have access to the University's Wellbeing Support ServicesLink opens in a new window, this includes specific support for disabled studentsLink opens in a new window. We work with our students to develop support plans with agreed reasonable adjustments for any declared disabilities or learning differences.

As our initial teacher training courses include work-based training, admission on to the programme involves an Occupational Health Assessment relative to the activities teachers are required to perform as set out in the Education (Health Standards) (England) Regulations 2003Link opens in a new window. Reasonable adjustments for placement are therefore achieved in collaboration between the University and the school(s) providing placement opportunities.

Key legislation includes (but is not limited to):

• The DFE Initial Teacher Training Criteria and supporting advice

• The DFE Assessment Only Criteria and supporting advice

CTE ensures that working practices in department and across our partnership of schools adhere to the criteria outlined in each of these, as well as the relevant legislation they reference within them.

The University of Warwick sets out key compliant practices and policies as follows:

• University Information Management Policy Framework
• Data Subject Privacy StatementsLink opens in a new window
• Information and Records Management and Records Retention ScheduleLink opens in a new window
• Freedom of InformationLink opens in a new window
• Data Protection and Subject Access RequestsLink opens in a new window

The Centre for Teacher Education have agreements in place with partnership schools that provide our trainee teachers with placements, for more information regarding partnership information, please contact the Head of Operations via email to carol dot walker at warwick dot ac dot uk.