Have you confirmed your Staff Disciplinary Procedure?

Like a Complaints policy, you don't need your Disciplinary procedure ... until the day you need it.

But when the need does arise, the procedure has to be right.

Why? Because the first line of defence is always to challenge whether the school is following its own policy.

If yours is a school where the county council is the employer, or if your academy or VA or Foundation school participates in the Warwickshire Consultation Framework, the Warwickshire Disciplinary Procedure applies to your teaching and support staff.

It's essential that all employees should be aware of this, and have access to a copy of it (published by WCC Schools HR on the WES website, My Documents section).

It's important that the governing board should be aware of it, and where the GB is the employer, there should be a record in GB or committee minutes that they have adopted this procedure.