The Welsh-medium teaching union UCAC’s call for better safeguards for teachers will be debated at their annual conference in Aberystwyth.
The conference will debate the use of mobile phones in schools and better protection for teachers facing false accusations from pupils.
Mr Hughes said Ucac, which has 5,000 members, and other teaching unions in Wales are receiving increasing numbers of calls from teachers facing false accusations from pupils.
He said they often felt as if they were guilty until proven innocent and suffered unacceptable stress while investigations were carried out.
“A motion is going before the conference calling for safeguards for teachers facing false accusations.
“Teachers don’t want to have to teach pupils who have falsely accused them.
“Several false allegations are made against teachers in Wales every month. Those teachers accused are under a great deal of stress.”
Another increasing cause of strain for teachers is the inappropriate use of mobile phones in schools, Mr Hughes warned.
The conference will look at how schools can better control use of mobile phones among pupils to prevent text bullying and secret filming.
“Some schools have systems where phones are handed in to the office but teachers and schools don’t have a right to take phones away,” Mr Hughes said.
“Parents complain that their children have a right to carry phones and that they need them so they can be contacted. They can be contacted through the school office.
“I think teachers should have a right to take phones away and keep them if necessary.
“There are problems with text bullying and inappropriate pictures and film being taken on phones in schools and then being put on the internet or sent around the school.”
Mr Hughes said Ucac had dealt with cases of pupils taking pictures or film of teachers secretly.
This was an increasing concern among teachers who have no real way of ensuring it does not happen as long as pupils are allowed to carry phones in school, he warned.
“The trouble is the phones are often silent so you don’t know they are there.
“It’s a matter of searching pupils. Teachers should have the right to take phones away.”
Acknowledgement: ICWales 28th April 2007