Ms Phil Fox:

At the risk of running around in a ring again, our role is clearly defined. We are supportive of teachers and, of course, there is a continuum of teacher education. It is our experience that the teachers are life-long learners and they engage in CPD as and when they need to. They are continually learning. They are learning in their own context and they are making conscious decisions to learn where they have an identified learning need. That has been our experience.

Last Saturday, more than 1,000 teachers attended our national conference, either physically or in a hybrid manner. As part of that, one of those sessions was facilitated by a teacher who has autism. That person is engaging in research and we look forward to hearing how that might go. However, as regards being a provider of CPD, we are not facilitated by the legislation to do that.