L04: Teacher Agreement
# Teacher Agreement
Review draft v0.3 | 16 September 2026
This agreement sets your personal responsibilities when using RTL programmes and professional services as a teacher. It covers safe conduct, accurate learning records, licensed materials, privacy and the conditions of your professional access.
**Review status.** This draft is not an offer for acceptance. Complete the schedules and obtain the required legal review before issuing a final execution version. The acceptance page is specimen wording for that final version.
1 Your agreement with RTL
1.1 This agreement is between the RTL service supplier and the individual teacher identified in Schedule A. You accept personally. Your employer or engaging club operator cannot accept for you. An operator who teaches must accept this agreement in addition to its Club Operator Agreement.
1.2 Your employment, engagement, pay, working hours, benefits and employment rights are governed by your separate arrangement with your operator and applicable law. RTL does not become your employer or tuition supplier by providing access. This agreement does not determine whether you are an employee, worker or self-employed person.
1.3 Every teacher must work through an authorised club operator, including a sole trader who is also that operator. The operator must authorise your assignments and remain responsible for local recruitment, supervision, premises and safeguarding. RTL does not perform criminal-record checks or certify your suitability. RTL remains responsible for its own services and legal duties.
1.4 The contract consists of this agreement, completed Schedules A and B and the exact attachments listed in Schedule A. All must be available before acceptance. Mandatory law prevails. This agreement governs professional access and conduct; Schedule A fixes its scope and Schedule B fixes recording requirements. No undisclosed handbook or change to a website silently adds an obligation.
2 Named professional access
2.1 RTL permits you to use its agreed professional services for the programmes and learner assignments your authorised operator has assigned to you while permission continues. Use your own account. Do not share credentials, lend your access, use another person's identity or allow an unauthorised person to work under your account.
2.2 Access only the learner information needed for your current work. Do not browse former learners, use information for private promotion, export a personal client list or transfer data between organisations without authority and a lawful basis. Tell your operator promptly when an assignment ends and stop access to those learners.
2.3 You may not bind RTL, promise RTL services or refunds, or present yourself as its employee, approved inspector or accredited representative. Professional access creates no personal branding licence. Any use of an operator's specifically approved Club name or nameplate must stay within that operator's written permission from RTL. It does not grant territorial exclusivity, a transferable teaching licence or authority to run an independent RTL-branded business.
2.4 Your permission creates no undisclosed subscription charge. Any RTL service you personally purchase requires its own clear order and applicable terms. A payment by you or a family does not authorise access to other learners or remove a professional restriction.
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3 Safeguarding and professional conduct
3.1 Cooperate with your operator's lawful identity, suitability, eligibility, training and supervision arrangements. Do not undertake activity from which you are legally barred or for which a required clearance is missing. Disclose necessary material changes affecting lawful or safe access through the proper restricted route.
3.2 Treat children, families, colleagues and RTL staff respectfully. Do not abuse, groom, exploit, threaten, humiliate, discriminate against or bully a child, use corporal punishment, or engage in sexual misconduct. Maintain appropriate professional boundaries in person and online. Never arrange secret or inappropriate private contact with a child.
3.3 Follow the operator's lawful procedures for supervision, attendance, arrival and collection, emergencies, first aid, one-to-one work, transport, images and communication. Know the safeguarding contact and alternative route. Do not assume a venue host or another adult is supervising without an agreed arrangement. Raise unsafe conditions and stop activity where immediate safety requires it.
3.4 Listen to concerns without leading questions, record relevant facts and the child's words accurately, and report through the appropriate route. Contact emergency or local protection services when needed and make required referrals without waiting for RTL or the operator's permission. Do not promise secrecy, investigate a criminal allegation yourself, destroy evidence or retaliate against a reporter.
3.5 Notify RTL through its restricted concern route about matters materially affecting professional access or programme use, as soon as lawful and safe. Share only necessary information and preserve official investigations. Do not put detailed allegations, criminal-record information or unnecessary medical information into routine learning observations.
4 Delivering the programme and recording learning
4.1 Follow the prescribed RTL teaching guidance, placement method, check procedures and progression rules for your assigned programme. Do not substitute invented assessments, omit required steps or describe an altered programme as the authorised programme. Use appropriate accessibility arrangements consistent with the applicable guidance and law.
4.2 Complete and submit the placements, observations and checks required for your assigned learners under Schedule B. Record the learner, relevant activity, actual date, observer or assessor, result and required evidence. Distinguish direct observation from interpretation, family reports, permitted assistance and incomplete evidence.
4.3 Never invent an activity, attendance, placement, score, observation, check result or achievement. Do not copy another learner's result, manipulate a result to unlock progression or payment, conceal a failed check or certify work you did not perform or verify under the applicable process. An absent child or incomplete assessment must have an honest status, not an invented pass.
4.4 Make entries under your own account. If the authorised process allows submission for another person, identify both the actual observer or assessor and the person entering it. Correct errors through the approved process, preserving the original entry and the correction's author, reason and time. Do not erase inconvenient results.
4.5 Tell your operator promptly if absence, workload, missing instructions or a service fault prevents required recording. During an RTL outage, keep only necessary secure temporary evidence and submit it when the service resumes. Arrange authorised handover when your assignment ends. The operator's oversight does not remove your responsibility for the accuracy of your submissions.
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5 Materials printing and branding
5.1 RTL and its licensors retain their rights in programme content, workbooks, illustrations, teaching guidance and software. You may use them only for authorised learners and assignments within your operator's licence. You receive no ownership, sublicensing or resale rights. This agreement does not assign your genuinely independent work or children's work to RTL.
5.2 **No workbook PDF or source-file downloads are permitted.** Do not obtain, retain, extract, scrape, screen-capture, scan, photograph or reconstruct programme content to make a substitute digital library, distribute content or evade controls. Temporary technical copies made by the authorised service to display or print an entitled page confer no right to acquire or retain a reusable workbook file.
5.3 Print only through the authorised process and within the operator's express permission for the named learner, assigned materials, purpose and allowance. Do not use another learner's entitlement, exceed the allowance, print for unlicensed learners, stockpile copies for later unlicensed use, use print-to-PDF to obtain a file, or bypass restrictions. Do not sell or distribute workbook copies independently.
5.4 Do not publish, upload, translate, adapt, resell, rent, sublicense or otherwise copy protected materials beyond permitted use, remove notices or watermarks, disclose confidential teaching resources or help someone else misuse them. Do not upload materials to external AI services or use them to train a model without express permission. Do not use them to build derivative products or reverse engineer protected services unlawfully.
5.5 No personal right to use RTL names, logos, marks or visual identity in your own business identity, signage, website, social accounts, advertising or promotions is granted. When acting for an operator, you may use only its exact Club name and nameplate specifically approved in writing by RTL, within that permission. This does not permit other branding use or transfer the permission to you. Do not register confusingly similar names or imply endorsement, accreditation or RTL employment. Keep notices and branding already embedded in authorised materials intact. Accurate factual identification of RTL where needed to explain programme supply or privacy responsibilities gives no permission for branded promotion.
5.6 These restrictions preserve specific uses that applicable law makes non-excludable by contract. They also permit a learning-evidence submission specifically authorised by RTL, such as a child's completed-work image through the approved process for that purpose. They do not permit circulating blank pages, whole workbooks or source files. Report suspected leakage, copying or account misuse promptly and take reasonable containment steps within your role.
6 Information honesty and reputation
6.1 Keep learner information and credentials secure, use approved channels and devices, and follow lawful instructions and applicable privacy information. Report loss, unauthorised access or disclosure without undue delay. Do not keep uncontrolled working copies or use learner information for unrelated marketing.
6.2 Photos and recordings require a defined lawful purpose and the necessary permissions. Publicity permission is separate from learning. Do not pressure families to consent or make optional publicity a condition of teaching. Sensitive safeguarding information must use the restricted local and RTL routes as applicable.
6.3 Give accurate information about your identity, qualifications, assignments and work. Do not commit, attempt or assist fraud, submit fraudulent claims, conceal learners to evade charges, share access to evade fees, misrepresent RTL, or assist intellectual-property misuse. Do not deliberately damage, corrupt, delete or interfere with RTL's systems, content or records, or exploit defects for unauthorised access or copies. Report vulnerabilities through the appropriate restricted route. Correct a material misrepresentation you made when you become aware of it.
6.4 Protect RTL's reputation through honest representation and professional conduct. Nothing here prevents truthful criticism, a good-faith complaint, reporting wrongdoing, obtaining advice, cooperating with authorities or a legally protected disclosure. Do not retaliate against a reporter or treat an unproven allegation as automatically malicious.
6.5 Protect genuinely confidential information after access ends, for as long as the duty remains lawful and the information confidential. Lawfully public information, independently known or developed information and lawful third-party disclosures are excluded. Required disclosures and lawful reporting remain permitted.
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7 Service responsibilities and compliance
7.1 RTL must provide the professional services and instructions described in Schedule A with reasonable care and skill. It must provide an appropriate support route and address material service failures and applicable remedies. It does not promise an educational outcome, uninterrupted access or services not included in the agreed scope.
7.2 Cooperate with proportionate enquiries about your access, teaching records, licensed use and conduct. Provide relevant information lawfully and preserve evidence of a suspected breach. This is not unrestricted permission to obtain private information, enter premises, interview children or record them. Any such activity needs a separate lawful basis and appropriate arrangements.
8 Restricting and ending professional access
8.1 RTL may temporarily restrict affected access where credible evidence indicates a serious safeguarding, fraud, IP or data-security risk requiring immediate protection. It must record and review the reasons. A restriction is a licensing or access decision, not a finding of criminal guilt.
8.2 A remediable material breach should normally receive a notice and reasonable opportunity to correct it. RTL may end professional permission for a substantiated serious or irremediable breach, a material breach not remedied after notice, or a documented continuing serious risk that lesser restrictions cannot adequately address. A complaint count alone is not grounds for automatic removal.
8.3 Where lawful and safe, RTL must explain the reasons and allow a response. You may request review through the contact in Schedule A. An uninvolved reviewer should be used where reasonably practicable. Necessary temporary restrictions may continue during review, but relevant new information must be considered.
8.4 Removal as a teacher applies to professional access across the RTL network. Joining another club, opening another account, changing role, paying again or restoring a purchase does not clear it. Separately justified parent access should continue unless a separate, reasoned decision restricts it too. The operator must separately handle your employment or engagement under applicable law.
8.5 You may stop using your professional permission by notifying RTL and your operator and arranging required handover. Ordinary notice and any separately purchased service follow Schedule A and the relevant accepted order. No automatic cancellation of another payer's subscription or promise of a provider refund follows from ending your role.
9 Records and materials when work ends
9.1 Stop accessing former assignments and using licensed materials when permission ends. Return equipment and working copies as lawfully instructed. Securely deal with unused restricted materials and unauthorised copies, subject to legal preservation duties. Do not keep blank stock or digital programme copies for future unlicensed teaching.
9.2 Hand over learner information only through authorised and lawful arrangements. Do not delete original records, withhold them over a dispute or take a private copy of learner lists. Children and families may retain lawfully supplied completed work and reports. Continued platform access, lawful data retention and information rights are separate; this agreement gives no lifetime access promise.
10 Changes responsibility and disputes
10.1 Material changes to this agreement or recording obligations require advance notice and fresh acceptance where applicable. Preserve the previous accepted version. Practical instructions within the agreed scope cannot silently add fees or grant branding or download rights. Apply the existing terms and fair exit arrangements if new terms are declined.
10.2 Each party is responsible for its own breach, negligence and legal duties. Nothing excludes fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or liability that cannot lawfully be excluded. No general indemnity or automatic penalty is imposed. Any agreed business liability limitation must be set out explicitly in Schedule A and preserve mandatory rights.
10.3 Raise disputes through the stated contact without delaying urgent court relief, safeguarding reports or other legal rights. Proposed governing law is England and Wales, subject to the jurisdiction review in Schedule A and mandatory local rights. If you legally qualify as a consumer, applicable consumer protections and jurisdiction rights prevail. No label in this agreement removes employment or consumer rights.
10.4 No assignment to another legal person is permitted without the other party's written agreement, except by a separately agreed lawful transfer. Only the parties may enforce this agreement unless an expressly accepted attachment states otherwise. An invalid provision is severed only to the extent lawful. Accrued rights and necessary IP, confidentiality, records and dispute duties survive exit.
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Schedule A Identity scope and contacts
Complete every applicable field and identify any attachment by a fixed document ID and version. State "none" or "not applicable" expressly where appropriate.
| Required item | Completed particulars |
|---|---|
| RTL supplier | [Legal name, registration number and jurisdiction, registered and contact addresses] |
| Teacher | [Full legal name, verified account/email and contact address] |
| Authorised operator | [Legal operator name, club ID and assignment authority; identify each additional authorised operator separately] |
| Programme and access | [Programmes, permitted teaching formats, professional services, applicable instruction versions and assignment authority] |
| Start and duration | [Start, permission conditions, ordinary notice and termination arrangements] |
| Printing scope reference | [Exact operator printing schedule ID/version made available to the teacher; process, allowance, reporting and replacement route] |
| Support and safeguarding | [Operator support, safeguarding contact and alternative; RTL support and restricted-concern contacts] |
| Privacy and review | [Privacy-notice versions, data handling instructions, retention/copy route, privacy contact, review contact and formal notice addresses] |
| Charges | No charge arises from these professional terms alone. [Identify any separately accepted personal purchase/order, or state none]. |
| Liability and law | [Any expressly agreed business limitation, or state none; reviewed governing law and applicable court arrangements] |
| Contract documents | [This execution version, Schedule B, applicable instructions and any attachments supplied before acceptance] |
Schedule B Your required learning records
Applicable programme instruction IDs and versions: **[complete]**. Your operator must make the relevant instructions and deadlines available before you accept this schedule.
| Record | What you must do when applicable | Deadline |
|---|---|---|
| Placement | Use the prescribed initial or reassessment process. Identify the learner and assessor and record the actual result and required evidence. | Before a starting position requiring placement is assigned; [additional submission period]. |
| Observation | Record the observation required by the relevant lesson or activity, with date, author, activity and required evidence or honest missing-evidence status. | [Agreed period after the activity]. |
| Check | Complete the prescribed checkpoint, record the actual result, assistance and evidence, and follow the applicable progression rule. | Before progression requiring the check; [submission period]. |
| Incomplete activity | Record absence, interruption or insufficient evidence and the next step. Do not create a result for work not completed. | [Agreed period]. |
| Correction or handover | Preserve the original record and identify the correction or authorised transfer of responsibility. | [Agreed correction/handover period]. |
| Escalation | Tell the operator about an overdue duty, service fault, missing access or instructions and record the agreed action. | [Agreed escalation period]. |
These requirements apply to the actual programme trigger, not automatically to every field on every lesson. A missed deadline does not authorise fabrication. Secure temporary recording and later submission may be used during an RTL outage as clause 4.5 provides.
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Acceptance of the completed execution version
The final presentation must show the exact agreement, completed schedules and listed attachments before acceptance and allow you to retain a copy. All boxes start unticked. Replace every bracketed field before use.
[ ] I agree personally to the **Teacher Agreement [execution version], completed Schedules A and B and the attachments listed there** for my professional access across the RTL network. I intend this action to bind me to those terms.
[ ] I acknowledge my safeguarding and professional conduct duties, including appropriate boundaries, following lawful local procedures and reporting concerns.
[ ] I acknowledge my responsibility to complete and submit required placements, observations and checks accurately under Schedule B, and never to invent or misrepresent learning evidence.
[ ] I acknowledge that I have no personal branding licence or workbook PDF download right. Any use of an operator's specifically approved Club name or nameplate must stay within its written RTL permission. I will print only within the express permission made available to me and protect RTL's materials, learner information and account access.
[ ] I acknowledge the duties of honest operation and cooperation with appropriate restrictions or withdrawal of professional access.
**Full legal name:** [name]
**Authorised operator and role:** [operator and role]
**Execution version and offer reference:** [identifiers]
**Final action:** Agree and enter the Teacher Agreement.
The acceptance record must identify your verified account, personal capacity, exact agreement and attachment copies, individual submitted choices, server UTC timestamp and receipt reference. Record server-observed IP and proportionate browser/app context under the stated privacy arrangements. Provide a durable copy you can retain. A typed name and affirmative action may be used; a drawn signature is not required by this proposed process. Your operator's acceptance cannot substitute for your personal acceptance.
