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HAYS Education PROUD TO PARTNER WITH ASCL Hays Education are dedicated to creating lifetime partnerships with schools, providing recruitment support, staff training and more through our products like the new Hays Hub and Hays Education Training. Hays Hub and Hays Education Training Partnering with schools to help manage their temporary & permanent recruitment needs using the Hays Hub platform Giving over 200,000 professionals across 5,000 schools access to free wellbeing training and more Complimentary LMS allowing schools to create their own courses, import existing courses, share updates, onboard new staff, all with full management information Find out more, contact one of our 200 local consultants in 40 offices across the UK at hays.co.uk/offices or email: ASCL@hays.com
Content Top Tips from Browne Jacobson Staff Wellbeing Maternity guidance Pay Performance Management Updated Headteacher Standards Recruitment and retention Induction and the Early Career Framework NPQs EU Exit
Browne Jacobson: Top Tips for 2020/21 Keeping the Staff Training and Recruitment and school going Engagement development retention of staff and well being Managing the Remote learning Pay practicalities of Dealing with Doing things Succession employees self- ongoing differently planning isolating/absence uncertainty and Clarity of managing communication expectations with staff
‘As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping others, one for helping yourself.’ Maya Angelou
Start with Communication Look out for Consider flexible yourself, take Consider workload Access to – keep it working support staff breaks, don’t for all, including support – how concise but opportunities for who work all work every Headteacher and easy is it? Do clear, don’t all where possible, year round, evening and leaders all staff know overload with e.g. can teachers make sure they weekend, set about it? quantity or take some/all PPA are able to take aside ‘non-work’ content some leave off site? Can office times and stick to staff work from it home on a rota basis? Staggered start/finish times?
Staff Wellbeing Resources • ASCL webinars on wellbeing • Education Support - the only UK charity dedicated to supporting the mental health and wellbeing of education staff in schools, colleges and universities. • Mind – mental health support and advice, including mental health at work website. • Anna Freud Centre – ‘schools in mind’ network. Also new Government backed/funded initiative to March 2021 ‘Wellbeing for Education Return’. Free training for wellbeing leads in schools. Contact LAs for further details. • DfE online resources to boost mental health support for staff and pupils. • Government guidance on the mental health and wellbeing aspects of coronavirus (COVID- 19).
Maternity
1 2 3 Designed to advise members of their Also helpful to New ASCL maternity entitlements from members who line guidance document pregnancy to going manage pregnant staff published back to work – and everything in-between
Maternity Guidance Chart to help members and employers know which provisions are applicable to their particular situation:
Pay Award
Pay – what to expect for 2021-2022 NJC pay STRB 31st remit: award: effective next step in increasing 1st April starting salaries to £30,000
Performance Management
2019/20 Review Joint Guidance DfE DfE guidance states ASCL joint guidance ‘Schools must ensure with NAHT/NGA – that teachers are not employers should look penalised during the Pragmatic approach favourably on teachers appraisal process or in required to decisions on respect of any subsequent and leaders who are pay progression pay progression decisions eligible for pay as a result of partial progression. This school closures, where includes Headteachers. this has impacted on the ability of the teacher to meet fully their objectives.’
Performance Management: 2020/2021 • Objectives should be carefully considered, not linked to catch up, performance measures or accountability measures. • Performance should not be judged around the use of online or remote learning lessons or platforms. • Employers will need to be flexible due to the unpredictable situation • DfE guidance extends to this year
Headteacher Standards
Headteacher Standards • The revised standards are rooted in what a ‘good head’ knows, understands and does in leading and managing a school • Moved away from the ‘aspirational’ nature of the 2015 standards and instead provides benchmarks that all headteachers should meet
shape support the provide a framework inform the headteachers’ own recruitment and for training middle performance practice and appointment of and senior leaders, management of professional headteachers aspiring to headship headteachers development, within and beyond the school
Recruitment & Retention
ITT applications 35% increase in teachers up 16% on last applications to ITT considering leaving year between mid-March 15% lower than in and mid-August 2019
Placements Retention Work Life Balance Capacity dropped by Wellbeing has/is 20% in primary schools Reduction in number of suffering and seven% in secondary schools resignations, including Tension between retirements, may be secure employment and Even more acute in short term more flexible working schools with most opportunities disadvantaged pupils
2021/2022 Bursaries and Scholarships • £24,000 bursary in chemistry, computing, maths and physics • £10,000 bursary in languages and classics • £7,000 bursary in biology • £26,000 scholarships in chemistry, computing, maths and physics https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/funding-initial-teacher- training-itt/funding-initial-teacher-training-itt-academic-year-2021-to-2022
Induction and Early Career Framework
Induction ECF Schools The Department will soon publish What schools will need information on the key to ensure is in place to legal changes to Further information on support ECTs from induction arrangements the format of a two- September 2021, the that schools will need to year, ECF-based expectations around comply with once the induction to be delivering an ECF- Early Career published shortly based programme of Framework (ECF) training, and the format reforms are rolled out of assessment for ECTs nationally from September 2021
NPQs
New National Professional Qualifications • National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership • National Professional Qualification for Headship • National Professional Qualification for Executive Leadership • National Professional Qualification for Leading Teacher Development • National Professional Qualification for Leading Behaviour and Culture • National Professional Qualification for Leading Teaching
1 2 3 The middle leadership The current suite of The reformed suite of qualification has been NPQs have been NPQs will have a removed due to the extended until 31 different approach to introduction of new August 2022, to enable assessment: more specialist NPQs pitched participants to complete detail on the at middle leaders their courses assessment of NPQs will be published in the invitation to tender
Recognition of Professional Qualifications after EU Exit
- We have - We will no longer - EU law will no left the EU be a member of the longer apply in under the EU directive allowing the UK at the terms of the for mutual end of the Withdrawal recognition of Transition Agreement qualifications - under Period which teachers from the EEA can currently apply for QTS
Implications Short-term (after Jan 2021) Longer-term (Mid 2021 onwards) ▪ Deal or No Deal: legislation in place to ▪ Government is actively looking at a long-term enable recognition of teachers from the EEA strategy for professional qualifications in England ▪ Question over whether to continue to ▪ No Deal: would mean that English recognise all EEA countries after this and/or qualifications are not automatically add more countries recognised in other countries after 31st ▪ Decisions need to be made over the next 3-6 December (though these countries could months choose to recognise) ▪ To maintain the mutual recognition of teachers with other countries (including English-qualified overseas) may well need individual agreements with countries 34
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