tupe faq

This is not a comprehensive guide to the new TUPE Regs. If you are feeling really keen then go here to read the details.

Set out below are the questions that are normally raised by schools in TUPE situations.

blowing the whistle

The dti have published a useful (and short) guide to whistleblowing here setting out the protections afforded to workers who blow the whistle.

the head teacher’s essential checklist for excluding a pupil

Excluding a pupil is probably one of the more difficult tasks of a head teacher. A whole nest of problems and tensions arise. If you get it wrong then a pupil can be reinstated – and then you have the problems of dealing with unhappy staff, unhappy unions, unhappy parents.

Here is the essential guide for what head teachers must do to get it right: