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This is for:

• panel members
• Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) staff
• employers of teachers (including agencies)
• teachers
• panel witnesses
• members of the public
• anyone undertaking teaching work

It applies to:

• local-authority-maintained schools
• free schools and academies
• pupil referral units
• non-maintained special schools
• independent schools
• sixth-form colleges
• youth custody settings
• childrens homes

This guidance includes information on:

• the professional conduct hearing panels purpose and procedures
• the panels decision-making criteria
• the panels recommendations
• interim prohibition orders and prohibition decisions

Pupil referral units provide education for children who cant go to a mainstream school.

Non-maintained special schools provide education for children with special educational needs that the Secretary of State for Education has approved under section 342 of the Education Act 1996.