{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-teacher-appraisal-wales-regulations-2002/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-teacher-appraisal-wales-regulations-2002/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2002/1394",
  "legislation_title": "The School Teacher Appraisal (Wales) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/school-teacher-appraisal-wales-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "The appraisal review and the appraisal statement",
  "text": "(1) At or near the end of the appraisal cycle all the appraisers, the external adviser and the head teacher must hold an appraisal review, with the object of—\n(a) reviewing the head teacher’s performance and identifying his or her achievements and any aspects in which further progress would be desirable;\n(b) assessing the extent to which the head teacher has met the objectives recorded in the statement of objectives; and\n(c) identifying any training and developmental needs and ways of meeting such needs.\n(2) The date on which an appraisal review is to be held must be determined by the appraisers, but at least 10 school days notice (in writing) must be given to the head teacher of that date.\n(3) The head teacher may, at least five school days before the appraisal review, submit to the appraisers—\n(a) the head teacher’s own assessment of his or her performance against the objectives recorded in the statement of objectives;\n(b) particulars of any training which the head teacher considers it would be desirable to receive having regard to that assessment; and\n(c) particulars of any factors which the head teacher considers affected his or her performance against the recorded objectives;\nand any such assessment and other information submitted to the appraisers under this paragraph must be considered at the appraisal review.\n(4) Within 10 school days after each appraisal review all the appraisers must prepare a written statement recording the main points made by the appraisers and the head teacher at the review and the conclusions reached, and there shall be recorded in an annex to the statement (which shall form part of the statement) the training and developmental needs and ways of meeting such needs identified at the review.\n(5) An appraisal review under paragraph (1) may be combined with a meeting under regulation 12 in relation to the following appraisal cycle.\n(6) The appraisers must give the head teacher a copy of the statement, prepared under paragraph (4) within 10 school days after the appraisal review.\n(7) The head teacher may, within 10 school days of receiving a copy of that statement, add to it his or her comments in writing, and such comments shall form part of the statement prepared under that paragraph.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word omitted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2009/2159",
      "affecting_title": "The School Teacher Appraisal (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2009/2159",
      "affecting_title": "The School Teacher Appraisal (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2009"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2002/1394/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:13:54.757579+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."
}