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Notifications

Mandatory notifications – teachers

As a Queensland-registered teacher, you must notify the QCT of particular changes to your personal circumstances and any change to your criminal history. Prosecution or disciplinary action may be initiated if you fail to report changes or provide false information, including:

  • a change in your criminal history, whether in Queensland, interstate, or overseas
  • a change in your personal circumstances
  • changes to your teaching status in another state.

Change in criminal history

You must inform us immediately if you are charged with any offence in Queensland or elsewhere. 

If this occurs, you must complete the Disclosure of change in teacher's police information form [PDF 648KB].

Change in teaching status in another state

You must inform us within 7 days if your teaching status in another state is changed, including if:

  • your registration is cancelled or suspended
  • your employment is terminated due to incompetence or being deemed not suitable to teach.

If this occurs, you must complete the Disclosure about particular changes in teaching status in another state [PDF 61KB] to inform us.

Change in personal circumstances

You must inform us within 20 business days if:

  • you change your name
  • you change your address
  • your employment in a Queensland school changes
  • there is a change or removal of the qualification for which your registration was approved.

These changes must be made in your myQCT account.

Mandatory notifications – employing authorities

If you are responsible for hiring teachers in schools, you must notify the QCT under the Education (Queensland College of Teachers) Act 2005 (the Act) if:
  • you start dealing with allegations that a teacher caused or might have caused harm to a child (section 76 of the Act) – complete this form [PDF 815KB]
  • when you stop dealing with the allegations of harm to a child (section 77 of the Act) – complete this form [PDF 927KB]
  • a teacher is dismissed due to competence issues (section 78 of the Act) – complete this form [PDF 794KB].

Employing authorities are protected under the law when they disclose information in these notices.

Employing authorities notifications guidelines [PDF 186KB]

Employing authorities information sheet [PDF 288KB]

With the Reportable Conduct Scheme taking effect on 1 July 2026, QCT has produced a policy [PDF 254KB] and guideline [PDF 313KB] to support the scheme and your reporting requirements under sections 76 and 77 of the Act.

This policy and guideline will replace the existing information sheet and guideline documents above.

Agency reporting obligations

Certain agencies must report to the QCT under the law.

The Commissioner of Police must notify the QCT if a teacher is charged with a criminal offence. The notice must include:
  • the teacher’s name, address, and date of birth
  • details of the offence and the date of the charge.
The Commissioner of Police or Director of Public Prosecutions must notify the QCT about the progress or outcome of a charge, including:
  • a teacher is committed to trial for an indictable offence
  • a teacher is convicted of an indictable offence
  • the prosecution ends without the teacher being convicted of the indictable offence that they were charged with.
Last updated:
16 June 2026