Workforce Agreement (England & Wales)

Implementing  the National Agreement Raising Standards and Tackling Workload 

 

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Web sites:

 

WAMG Social Partnership site

 

National Remodelling Team (NRT) Web site 

 

WAMG (Workforce Agreement Monitoring Group) Web site 

National Agreement Website

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PPA in Practice

 

The Implementation Review Unit

 

School Workforce Remodelling (TeacherNet)

 

Higher Level Teaching Assistants Web site (TDA)

 

Teaching assistants Web site (TeacherNet)  

 

Support staff Web site (TeacherNet)

 

HLTA.org.uk

 

 

Latest news: 

 

WAMG Social Partnership site

Latest WAMG & RIG documents and resources (incl meeting notes)

 

Download latest WAMG case studies on remodelling and the National Agreement

 

SecEd Workforce Reform supplement (11 March 2010)

 

Social Partnership: letter in TES (5 March 2010)

 

Local social partnership effectiveness survey 2009: summary of findings (February 2010) (pdf)

 

WAMG Note 25: Workforce reform agenda update and local social partnership priorities (Autumn 2009) (pdf)

 

Grwp Monitro Cytundeb y Gweithlu1 (WAMG): Nodyn 25: Diweddariad ar yr agenda diwygio’r gweithlu a blaenoriaethau partneriaethau cymdeithasol lleol (Hydref 2009) (pdf)

 

Rarely Cover:  Provision that teachers should rarely cover for absent colleagues to be implemented from 1 September 2009.

 

WAMG Note 24 Threshold and Performance Management for Teachers in England from September 2009 (July 2009) (pdf)

 

WAMG Note 23: Threshold and performance management in England from September 2009: change in timescale for assessment applications (February 2009) (pdf)

 

Grwp Monitro Cytundeb y Gweithlu1 (WAMG): Nodyn 23: Trothwyon a Rheoli Perfformiad yn Lloegr o fis Medi 2009 ymlaen: newid yr amserlen ar gyfer ceisiadau asesu (Chwefror 2009) Trothwyon a Rheoli Perfformiad yn 2009: Ni fydd y broses asesu Trothwyon yn newid yng Nghymru, ac o ganlyniad 31 Awst fydd y terfyn amser ar gyfer y ceisiadau o hyd. Threshold and Performance Management in Wales from September 2009: The threshold process in Wales will remain unchanged and accordingly the threshold application deadline continues to be 31 August. (pdf)

 

Voice welcomes Ofsted workforce report, 5 November 2008

 

Compliance with National Agreement on Workload (November 2008)

 

WAMG Note 22: The Appropriate Deployment of Support Staff in Schools (July 2008) (pdf)

 

WAMG Note 21: Threshold and Performance Management from 2009 (July 2008) (pdf)

 

Voice raises concerns over TAs and cover (June 2008)

 

WAMG Note 20 (April 2008) (pdfs):

 

WAMG note 20 Effective operation of local social partnerships  English  Welsh

2008 guidance on effective working for local social partnerships English  Welsh

Model protocol for local social partnerships English  Welsh

Issue resolution process: National Agreement implementation and Performance Management English  Welsh

 

Questionnaire on workforce remodelling (April 2008)

 

WAMG Note 19: Updating local social partnerships on the programme and priorities (February 2008)  (pdf)

 

WAMG Note 18: Supporting Local Social Partnership and sustainable reform (October 2007) (pdf)

 

Time for Standards: Guidance accompanying the Section 133 Regulations issued under the Education Act 2002 (August 2007) (pdf)

 

Education Secretary confirms plans to investigate pay and conditions framework for support staff (2007)

 

Professional Standards for Higher Level Teaching Assistants (2007)

 

 

Documents and Resources archive:

 

 

Office of Manpower Economics: School Teachers Workload Survey 2006 (published October 2006)  (pdf)

 

14-19 Gateway Guidance 

www.dfes.gov.uk/14-19

 

 

 

Joint Guidance Note 16 from WAMG: Sustainability of National Agreement Implementation (June 2006) (pdf)

 

Joint Guidance Note 15 (amended) from WAMG: Further Improving Outcomes, Further Improving Working Lives: School Workforce Social Partnership Priorities for 2006-2008 (April 2006) (pdf)

 

PAT raises issue of cover (January 2006) (pdf) 

 

PPA in Practice 

 

Headteachers and the National Agreement – a summary (WAMG headship pack, December 2005)  (pdf)

 

Remodelling the school workforce: a report from Ofsted (December 2005)

 

Letter on PPA time in Independent (Education), 8 September 2005 

(pdf)

 

PPA will benefit pupils and staff (PAT & DfES press releases, 31 August 2005) (pdf)

 

Joint Guidance Note 14 from WAMG (Workforce Agreement Monitoring Group): PPA time (August 2005) (pdf)

 

PPA in Practice

 

Joint Guidance Note 13 from WAMG: Implementation of Contractual Change and Progress of Remodelling (June/July 2005) (pdf)

 

Joint Guidance Note 12 from WAMG: Effective Deployment of Higher Level Teaching Assistants (June 2005)  (pdf)

 

Review of the School Staffing Structure: Guidance for Schools in England 

 

 

Joint Guidance Note 11 from WAMG (Workforce Agreement Monitoring Group) (March 2005) (pdf) 

 

WAMG Invigilation Resource Pack (February 2005): letter (pdf) 

 

WAMG Invigilation Resource Pack (February 2005): Strategy Overview and Good Practice Guidance  (pdf) 

 

WAMG Invigilation Resource Pack (February 2005): School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document – Section 4 (pdf)

 

Every Child Matters/The Children Act 2004: implementation information (including WAMG advice from December 2004)

 

 

Joint WAMG Statement on Class Sizes (14/10/04) (pdf)

 

DfES Consultation on Best Value Code of Practice (13/10/04)

 

Joint Guidance Note 10 from WAMG (October 2004) (pdf)

 

Guidance for Schools on Higher Level Teaching Assistant Roles for School Support Staff (23/07/04) (pdf)

 

New arrangements for registering on HLTA programme (01/07/04)

 

 

Article on the Agreement and nursery nurses (May 2004) (pdf)

 

Article on cover (May 2004) (pdf)

 

 

Remodelling Cover - a resource pack 

 

Joint Guidance Note 9 from WAMG: An update on the Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) Programme (April 2004) (pdf)

 

Joint Guidance Note 8 from WAMG (March 2004) (pdf)

 

Joint Guidance Note 7 from WAMG (March 2004) (pdf)

 

WAMG Joint Statement (WAMG One Year On) January 2004 (pdf)

 

Guidance for Schools on Cover Supervision (December 2003) (Word)

 

Joint Guidance Note 6 from WAMG (December 2003)  (Word)

 

Joint Guidance Note 5 from WAMG (October/November 2003 (pdf)

 

Professional Standards for Higher Level Teaching Assistants (TTA, 2003)

 

New arrangements for the employment of School Support Staff (NJC) (24/10/03) (pdf)

 

National Agreement resources 

 

The "non-teaching tasks" 

 

WAMG publications, including:

Cutting Burdens Toolkit 

What the Agreement means for you

Good practice in cutting bureaucracy

 

School Staffing (England) Regulations 2003 No.1963 (GovernorNet)

 

Joint Guidance Note 4 from WAMG (July 2003) (pdf)

 

Joint Guidance Note 3 from WAMG (17 June 2003) (pdf)

 

Joint Guidance Note 2 from WAMG (6 June 2003) (pdf)

 

 

Joint Guidance Note 1 from WAMG (Workforce Agreement Monitoring Group) (7 April 2003) (pdf)

 

Presentation on the Workforce Agreement (by then PAT General Secretary Jean Gemmell, as presented in May 2003) (pdf)

 

Consultation on Implementing the National Agreement (2003):

 

PAT’s response (July 2003) (Word)

 

Developing the Role of School Support Staff: What the National Agreement means for you  (pdf)

 

A summary of the outcomes of ‘Developing the role of schools support staff  (Time for Standards) consultation. (2003)

 

 

Statement on the National Agreement Raising Standards and Tackling Workload (2003)  (pdf)

 

 

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