Ms Phil Fox:

The director covered most of it there.

We are regulating for risk in the public interest, as the director set out. Our fitness-to-teach processes are clearly set out within our legislation and within our supporting documentation.

I note the Deputy referred specifically to the naming of the teacher. There are circumstances where it is not in the public interest to refer to a teacher's name and in that instance, they are not held in public. We have a low number, relatively speaking, of inquiries where it has been held in public and not anonymised. There is probably a distinction there where the panel might direct there be reporting restrictions to perhaps protect the identity of a minor. Obviously, we are the Teaching Council and a lot of our work would centre on teachers' work in classrooms with young children, children, minors or vulnerable persons. In that instance, to protect the identity of somebody involved in a particular circumstance, we may not identify a teacher, a gender, a geographic location or whatever the circumstances might be or, similarly, if there are circumstances that pertain particularly to an individual registrant in relation to health for various reasons, we might anonymise an inquiry or hold it in private if that was deemed necessary.