# The Education (School Teacher Performance Management) (England) Regulations 2006, Regulation 20: Use and retention of statements


(1) The head teacher or, in the case where the reviewee is the head teacher, the governing body shall retain the reviewee’s statement for a minimum period of 6 years from the date on which the cycle to which it relates ends.
(2) Where the reviewee is a teacher other than a head teacher, the governing body shall have regard to the results of the review recorded in the statement pursuant to regulation 18 when exercising any discretion in relation to his pay.
(3) The governing body shall be provided with access to the reviewee’s statement for the purposes of paragraph (2), upon request.
(4) Where the reviewee is the head teacher, the governing body or, in the case where the school does not have a delegated budget, the local education authority shall have regard to the results of the review recorded in the statement pursuant to regulation 18 when exercising any discretion in relation to his pay.
(5) Where the school does not have a delegated budget, the local education authority shall be provided with access to the reviewee’s statement for the purposes of paragraph (4), upon request.
(6) The reviewee’s line manager or, where he has more than one, each of his line managers shall be provided with access to the reviewee’s plan recorded in the statement, upon request, where this is necessary to enable him to discharge his line management responsibilities.
(7) Where a reviewee pursues an appeal in relation to the contents of his statement the head teacher or, where the reviewee is the head teacher, the governing body shall provide anyone hearing that appeal with access to that statement.
(8) Where a reviewee transfers from one school to another school part-way through his cycle, the head teacher or, where the reviewee is the head teacher, the governing body of the school shall transfer the reviewee’s statement for that cycle, together with any evidence gathered concerning his performance during that cycle, to the head teacher or governing body of the new school, as the case may be, upon receipt of a written request from the reviewee.
(9) Where a reviewee employed by an authority in a school or a governing body of a school becomes an unattached teacher part-way through his cycle, the head teacher or, where the reviewee was the head teacher, the governing body shall transfer the reviewee’s statement for that cycle, together with any evidence gathered concerning his performance during that cycle, to the new authority, upon receipt of a written request from the reviewee.
(10) Where a reviewee employed as an unattached teacher becomes employed as a teacher by an authority in a school or by a governing body of a school part-way through his cycle, the authority shall transfer the reviewee’s statement for that cycle, together with any evidence gathered concerning his performance during that cycle, to the head teacher or, in the case where the unattached teacher is to become the head teacher of the school, the governing body of the school, upon receipt of a written request from the reviewee.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/2661/regulation/20 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-teacher-performance-management-england-regulations-2006/regulation-20
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