Teaching standards, misconduct and practice

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Report serious teacher misconduct

How to report a teacher - what counts as serious misconduct, what information to include in your report, when you may need to attend a teacher misconduct hearing.
Teacher misconduct: referral form

Referral forms for an allegation of serious misconduct by a teacher.

Teachers' standards
- Guidance
- 13 December 2021
- Department for Education
Teacher misconduct: attend a professional conduct panel hearing or meeting
- Detailed guide
- 28 October 2025
- Teaching Regulation Agency
Teacher misconduct: regulating the teaching profession
- Detailed guide
- 21 November 2024
- Teaching Regulation Agency
Teacher misconduct: disciplinary procedures
- Guidance
- 20 May 2020
- Teaching Regulation Agency
Early years teachers' standards
- Guidance
- 11 July 2013
- Closed organisation: National College for Teaching and Leadership and Department for Education

Teacher misconduct panel outcome: Mrs Edyta Burska
- 28 October 2025
- Teaching Regulation Agency
- Decision
Teacher misconduct panel outcome : Mr David Ewbank
- 27 October 2025
- Teaching Regulation Agency
- Decision
Teacher misconduct panel outcome: Mr Benjamin Hiscox
- 24 October 2025
- Teaching Regulation Agency
- Decision
Teacher misconduct panel outcome: Ms Joanna Walker-Maxey
- 24 October 2025
- Teaching Regulation Agency
- Decision
Teacher misconduct panel outcome: Mr Matthew Hindle
- 23 October 2025
- Teaching Regulation Agency
- Decision

Teachers in primary and secondary schools: TALIS 2018
- 23 March 2020
- Department for Education
- Research
Teachers in secondary schools: evidence from TALIS 2013
- 2 November 2017
- Department for Education
- Research
Teacher workload survey 2016
- 24 February 2017
- Department for Education
- Research
Teacher voice omnibus: May to July 2016 survey - DfE questions
- 20 January 2017
- Department for Education
- Research
Malpractice for GCSE and A level: summer 2016 exam series
- 13 December 2016
- Ofqual
- Official statistics

Teacher misconduct: regulating the teaching profession
- 29 April 2022
- Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 14 March 2022
Teacher misconduct: the prohibition of teachers advice
- 1 February 2022
- Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 19 October 2021
Reducing teacher workload action plan
- 24 February 2017
- Department for Education
- Policy paper
DfE protocol for changes to accountability, curriculum and qualifications
- 2 October 2015
- Department for Education
- Policy paper
Teachers' professional development standard: call for evidence
- 7 September 2015
- Department for Education
- Call for evidence outcome

Analysis of 'specialist' and 'non-specialist' teaching in England
- 16 December 2016
- Department for Education
- Transparency
Headteacher standards: report of the review
- 19 January 2015
- Department for Education
- Corporate report