Organisation employment check portal

There are 2 portals:

School portal – for nurseries, schools, academies, free schools, independent schools and colleges
Organisation portal – for teacher supply agencies, local authorities and training providers

This overview covers the organisation portal. Users access this portal via DfE Sign-in, using the service named ‘Teacher Services: Employer Access - Agent’.

There is a page of guidance on GOV.UK which describes how to access the service and what you can use it for. The GOV.UK guidance refers to the portal as ‘Teacher Services’.

The organisation portal has these features:

a teacher lookup using TRN and date of birth
lists of people with teaching restrictions
a page showing an individual teacher’s details, sharing a similar layout to the self-service home page

It includes the following lists:

teachers who have failed to successfully complete their induction or probation period
teachers who are the subject of a suspension or conditional order imposed by the General Teaching Council for England (prior to its abolition in 2012)
teachers and others who are prohibited from teaching in England
individuals who have been barred from taking part in the management of an independent school (including academies and free schools) – section 128 legislation
teachers sanctioned in other EEA states used to be shown, but the list is no longer maintained, though the link remains