LoginAnnual Report
The General Teaching Council for Wales, in meeting its operational objectives, highlights the following key successes during the year 2008-09:
To maintain and promote the highest standards of professional conduct and practice
- Successfully introduced online access to the Register of Qualified Teachers
- Completing analysis of time taken by newly qualified teachers to meet the Induction standard
- Maintaining high professional standards through hearing over 20 professionalstandards cases
To provide an independent, representative and authoritative voice for the profession on teaching issues
- Developing a position paper on future school inspection arrangements andpresenting it to Estyn
- Completing a position paper on consistencyand coherence in 14-19 provision which argues for the introduction of professional self-regulation in Further Education
- Completing a position paper on GTCW’s future role in accrediting courses of initial teacher education
To develop a culture of professional development amongst teachers
- Supporting some 3,000 teachers in the first three years of their careers, through administering funding for Induction and Early Professional Development
- Producing detailed analysis of the professional development activities undertaken by new teachers during their first three years of teaching
- Successfully completing the first phase ofthe Chartered Teacher Programme pilot and developing draft arrangements for a mainstream programme
- Supporting 4,100 teachers in addressing their individual professional development needs, through administering the Continuing Professional Development Funding Programme
- Increasing the reach of teachers’ continuing professional development by jointly arranging six dissemination events with local education authorities and other bodies
To communicate the positive contribution of the teaching profession to society
- Extending networking opportunities across Europe
- Issuing 18 press releases to publicise the positive work of teachers
To provide efficient, effective and robust finance, personnel and administrativesystems that support the delivery of the Council’s objectives
- Receiving a clean bill of health on the 2007-08 accounts from the Wales Audit Office
- Adopting a revised Disability Equality Scheme
- As a result of the capping of the registrationfee, planning for a 6% reduction inexpenditure for 2009-10
Full details of the Council's work are provided in the Council's Annual Report and Accounts, 2008-09. A copy of the Report is available on request, alternatively it can also be read in PDF from here (554k).
Previous Annual Reports
Annual Report and Accounts 2008-2009 (PDF 3Mb)
Annual Report and Accounts 2006-2007 (PDF 436k)
Annual Report and Accounts 2005-2006 (PDF 261k)
Annual Report and Accounts 2004-2005 (PDF 856k)
Annual Report and Accounts 2003-2004 (PDF 330k)
Annual Report and Accounts 2002-2003 (PDF 330k)
Annual Report and Accounts 2001-2002 (PDF 298k)
Annual Report and Accounts 2000-2001 (PDF 600k).
The Council's Annual Accounts for the year ending 31 March 2009 can be downloaded in PDF format from 
The Council aims to provide an independent, representative and authoritative voice for the teaching profession in Wales and seeks to provide robust advice to the Welsh Assembly Government and other organisations on teaching issues.
The Council has agreed its Corporate Plan for 2009-2012. It sets out 5 main objectives for the Council: