Education Act 2005

75 Functions of Agency

(1) The Agency are to exercise the functions conferred on them by or under this Part or any other enactment.

(2) The objectives of the Agency in exercising their functions are—

(a) to contribute to raising the standards of teaching and of other activities carried out by the school workforce,

(b) to promote careers in the school workforce,

(c) to improve the quality and efficiency of all routes into the school workforce, and

(d) to secure the involvement of schools in all courses and programmes for the initial training of school teachers.

(3) In the exercise of their functions the Agency shall have regard, in particular, to the desirability of securing that the school workforce is well fitted and trained—

(a) to promote the spiritual, moral, behavioural, social, cultural, mental and physical development of children and young people,

(b) to contribute to their well-being, and

(c) to prepare them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life.

(4) In subsection (3)(b) “well-being”, in relation to children and young people, is a reference to their well-being having regard to the matters mentioned in section 10(2) of the Children Act 2004 (c. 31).

(5) For the purposes of this Part, the school workforce consists of the following members—

(a) persons who work in schools, and

(b) persons not falling within paragraph (a) who are teachers or carry out work that consists of or includes teaching.