Submitting a mandatory report
As a principal or professional leader, you may need to submit mandatory reports as part of your legal responsibilities.
When to submit a mandatory report
There are several situations where a report may be required, including:
- A reason to believe a teacher has engaged in serious misconduct – see the examples of types of serious misconduct that need to be reported.
- Any dismissal of a teacher for any reason.
- A teacher resigning 12 months or less after a conduct or competence issue raised – if a teacher resigned or their contract ends, and the school or centre told the teacher it was unhappy with or was going to investigate the teacher’s conduct or competence within less than 12 months before the teacher’s resignation.
- Receiving a complaint about a teacher who has recently left - if your school or centre receives a complaint about the conduct or competence of a former teacherless than 12 months since they have left.
- Competence level – if, after taking steps to address a problem, the school or centre believes the teacher hasn’t reached the required competence level.
How to submit a mandatory report
If you’re a registered teacher, you can to submit a mandatory report.
Steps to submit a report
Log into My Rawa
If you do not have a login, you can check out this webpage.
Scroll down to the section named ‘I want to’. This will open up the ‘Professional Responsibility’ tab in Hapori Matatū.
Click the case number or subject of the draft mandatory report you would like to edit.
Click on the card called Submit a Report.
Once you've submitted a report, if you need to edit it, select the ‘My Submitted Reports’ tile.
Click the case number or subject of the draft mandatory report you would like to edit.
You'll be taken to the draft report, where you can make any changes before submitting.
Please do not send the Council confidential settlement agreements or associated information, the supply of which would be unlawful. Information such as this is unable to be taken into consideration and will not be used. Please consider the scope of the information provided with a mandatory report – it should relate only to the specific situation that warranted the report in the first place.
Related links
FAQs
If you don't have access to Hapori Matatū, and are:
- an ECE centre manager
- a manager or owner of a ECE service
- a Board of Trustees Chair for primary or secondary school, or kura
Please visit this webpage to get set up, or download and complete a mandatory report form and email it to conduct@teachingcouncil.nz.
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