abstract:Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) is required in England and Wales to become, and continue being, a teacher of children in state schools that are under local authority control, and in special education schools. Similar statuses exist in the rest of the United Kingdom (Scotland and Northern Ireland), but under different names.
Mr Twigg criticised the education secretary for allowing free schools and academies the freedom to employ staff who do not have qualifiedteacherstatus.