Terms and conditions
Using our website
Please read these Terms of Use (“General Terms”) carefully before using this Manage School Placements service (the “Service”).
This service is maintained to enable:
- Schools to publish placement opportunities for trainee teachers so that teacher training providers can contact them
- Teacher training providers to find schools who are offering placements for trainee teachers
Access and use by you of this Service constitutes your acceptance of these General Terms. This takes effect from the date on which you first use this website. If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use this website.
If we change these General Terms we will post the revised document here with an updated effective date. If we make significant changes to these terms, we may notify you by other means such as sending an email or posting a notice on our home page.
Information about us
This Service is operated by the Department for Education (“we”, “our”, or “us”). We are a central government department and have our registered office at Sanctuary Buildings, 20 Great Smith Street, SW1P 3BT.
You can contact us using the following email address: manage.schoolplacements@education.gov.uk
Access to the Service
We will not be liable if for any reason the Service is unavailable at any time or for any period. From time to time, we may restrict access to all or some parts of the Service to users who have registered with us.
If you choose, or are provided with, a user verification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party.
We reserve the right to restrict or deny you access to all or some part of the Service if in our opinion you have failed to comply with the General Terms.
The Department for Education withholds the right to withdraw the access of users who breach them.
Hyperlinking to the Manage school placements website
We do not object to you linking directly to pages on this site and you do not need to ask permission to do so. However, we do not permit our pages to be loaded into frames on your site. The ‘Manage school placements’ pages must be displayed in the user’s entire browser window.
You may not charge your website’s users to click on a link to any page on the Service.
Third party content and hyperlinking from the Service
We are not liable or responsible for the third party content on the Service. Third party content includes, for example, material posted by other users of the Service.
Where the Service contains links to other sites and resources, we are not liable or responsible for the content or reliability of those websites and resources and do not necessarily endorse the views expressed within them.
We aim to replace broken links to other sites but cannot guarantee that these links will always work as we have no control over the availability of other sites.
Virus protection
We make every effort to check and test material at all stages of production. We do not guarantee our service will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. We cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system which may occur whilst using material derived from this website.
We will report misuse, unauthorised access or other breaches of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 to the relevant law enforcement authorities and co-operate with them to determine your identity.
Disclaimer and liability
The content of this Service includes both content created by us (included but not limited to content that helps you use the Service) and third-party content including information about teacher reference numbers (TRNs). We do not:
- endorse third-party content
- vouch for its accuracy
- guarantee that the views, instructions and/or assertions expressed in it are our own
The content we create for the Service is not advice. You should verify any information on the Service yourself and use your own judgement before doing or not doing anything on the basis of the content.
Unless expressly stated in writing by us, the Service and material relating to government information, products and services (or to third party information, products and services), is provided ‘as is’, without any representation or endorsement made and without warranty of any kind whether express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.
We do not warrant that the functions contained in the material contained in this site will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that this site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or represent the full functionality, accuracy, reliability of the materials.
In no event will we be liable for:
- any action you may take as a result of relying on any information or materials provided on the Service or for any loss or damage suffered by you as a result of you taking such action including, without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damages whatsoever arising from or in connection with the use of the Service
- any dealings you have with third parties, like other users, that take place using or facilitated by the Service
Validity of these General Terms
If any of these General Terms are held to be invalid, unenforceable or illegal for any reason, the remaining General Terms will still apply.
Applicable law and jurisdiction
These General Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales. Any dispute arising under these General Terms will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
Using the Service
Access and use by you of this Service constitutes your acceptance of these General Terms.
By using this Service you agree to abide by the following terms and conditions.
Unacceptable use
You must not add a mentor to the service without informing them that the Department for Education will store their information in line with the privacy notice and have provided them with a copy of this notice for reference.
Mentor and placement data
Data ownership: schools have sole responsibility for maintaining the accuracy and appropriateness of their mentor and placement data contained in the Service and associated contact details.
Privacy
Read the Privacy information: education providers’ workforce, including teachers (opens in new tab).
Section 8.4 (opens in new tab) tells you what we do with you and your mentor’s data when you make contact with us or use this service.
Section 4.1 (opens in new tab) tells you how we use your data to contact you for feedback.
Last updated 10 June 2024