# The Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (England) Regulations 2008, Regulation 10: Periods of employment counting towards an induction period

Extent: E+W
Status: prospective

(1) Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, a period of continuous employment as a qualified teacher of not less than 1 term in duration counts towards an induction period where it is served in an institution to which regulation 8(1) applies, and—
(a) where the institution is a school in England, it is served entirely on or after 1st September 1999;
(b) where it is a sixth form college in England, it is served entirely on or after 1st September 2000;
(c) where it is a school or sixth form college in Wales, it is served entirely on or after 1st September 2003;
(d) where it is a further education institution other than a sixth form college in Wales, it is served entirely on or after 1st September 2005; and
(e) where it is a further education institution other than a sixth form college in England, it is served entirely on or after 1st September 2008.
(2) A period of continuous employment of not less than 63 operating days as a qualified teacher in a further education institution counts towards an induction period where—
(a) that person is engaged to provide services as a teacher by contract or otherwise and the period of employment under the contract or engagement is not for a specified number of terms; and
(b) it is served in a further education institution in England or Wales to which regulation 8(5) applies and is served on or after 1st September 2008.
(3) In the case of a school where—
(a) the school year consists of 6 terms, the reference in paragraph (1) to a period of continuous employment of not less than 1 term has effect instead as a reference to a period of continuous employment of not less than 2 terms; or
(b) the school year does not consist of 3 or 6 school terms, the reference in paragraph (1) to a period of continuous employment of not less than one term has effect instead as a reference to a period of continuous employment of not less than 63 days.
(4) A continuous period of employment in an institution where the school year consists of 3 school terms which consists of—
(a) consecutive parts of 2 school terms; and
(b) where (disregarding holidays between them) when aggregated those parts equal at least the length of the shorter school term of that period,
counts as employment of 1 term for the purposes of paragraph (1).
(5) A continuous period of employment in an institution where the school year consists of 6 school terms which consists of—
(a) a school term preceded by and followed by parts of 2 school terms; and
(b) where those parts (which disregarding holidays between them) when aggregated equal at least the length of the shorter school term of those 2 parts,
counts as employment of 2 terms for the purposes of paragraph (1) as read with paragraph (3).
(6) No period of engagement as a supply teacher counts towards an induction period unless the head teacher of the school so agrees before the start of such period.
(7) Except as provided for in paragraphs (1) to (5), no period of employment as a teacher counts towards an induction period.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/657/regulation/10 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-induction-arrangements-for-school-teachers-england-regulations-2008/regulation-10
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