WCED extensively vets teachers against Sex Offenders Register
31 May 2018
The Western Cape Education Department is using a private company, Management Integrity Evaluation (MIE), to vet teachers, as the South African Council of Educators (SACE) has for some time, not had the capacity to perform this function.
I will inquire from SACE how many teachers in the Province have been taken off the council’s roll because of interventions from the WCED concerning any incidents of sexual offences at schools in the Western Cape?
It was pleasing to note that DA colleagues in Gauteng have already laid a criminal complaint against SACE for failing to vet teachers against the sex offenders register. This is deeply concerning, as SACE’s mandate includes vetting all teachers against the sex offenders register as required under the Employment of Educators’ Act.
Unlike any other Provincial Education Department in the country, the WCED applies three checks to vet new teaching appointments as SACE fails to do so: