{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-teacher-performance-management-england-regulations-2006/regulation-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-teacher-performance-management-england-regulations-2006/regulation-25.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/2661",
  "legislation_title": "The Education (School Teacher Performance Management) (England) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-school-teacher-performance-management-england-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/25",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Appointment of reviewers for teachers",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following paragraphs of this regulation, the authority shall be the reviewer for every unattached teacher.\n(2) The authority may delegate the duties imposed upon the reviewer, in their entirety, to the teacher’s line manager.\n(3) Where the teacher has more than one line manager, the authority may delegate the reviewer’s duties, in their entirety, to the line manager whom they consider would be best placed to manage and review the teacher’s performance.\n(4) Where it becomes apparent that the person to whom the authority have delegated the reviewer’s duties will be absent for the majority of the cycle, the authority may perform those duties themselves or delegate those duties, in their entirety, to another person for the duration of that absence.\n(5) Where a teacher is of the opinion that the person to whom the authority have delegated the reviewer’s duties is unsuitable, for professional reasons, he may submit a written request to the authority for that reviewer to be replaced, stating those reasons.\n(6) Where the authority are persuaded that the person to whom they have delegated the reviewer’s duties is unsuitable, they may perform those duties themselves or delegate them, in their entirety, to another person.\n(7) Where the authority are not persuaded that the person to whom they have delegated the reviewer’s duties is unsuitable, they shall—\n(a) notify the teacher in writing of their decision, stating their reasons; and\n(b) upon request, attach the teacher’s request and the notification of their rejection of that request to the statement for that cycle.\n(8) A reviewee may request that a person to whom the authority have delegated the reviewer’s duties be replaced once in any cycle.\n(9) Where the authority decide at any time that a person to whom they have delegated the reviewer’s duties is no longer suitable for professional reasons, or is no longer able to carry out those duties for any reason, they may perform those duties themselves or delegate them, in their entirety, to another person.\n(10) Where, pursuant to this regulation, the authority delegates the reviewer’s duties to a person who is not the teacher’s line manager, the person to whom they delegate those duties must have an equivalent or higher status in the authority’s staffing structure than the teacher’s line manager.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/2661/regulation/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:19:04.955385+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}