Dr. Lynn Ramsey:

We are eight years into the fitness to teach processes. As the Deputy says, that is relatively new in the lifespan of the Teaching Council. We are moving to commission a look-back at the fitness to teach processes to get a sense of what we are learning and what insights we can gain from them.

The fitness-to-teach processes are robust. There are clear guidelines and regulations surrounding what we do, how we do it and why we do it. Obviously, we have to investigate every complaint that comes to us but we assess whether a threshold is achieved in terms of seriousness.

Ms Fox might want to comment more generally on the fitness-to-teach processes.