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New registration categories for the Education Workforce Council

 

What do you think of our proposals for some staff working at independent schools to register with the Education Workforce Council (EWC)?

Question 1: Do you agree registration should be broadened to include some staff working at independent schools?

 

Question 2: Is the description of ‘specified work’ in regulation 17 of the Education Workforce Council (Main Functions) (Wales) Regulations 2015 broad enough to cover the roles and responsibilities of teaching staff at independent schools?

 

Question 3: Further to the following list of roles, are there other roles within independent schools which should fall into the category of school teacher?
  • Full-time teaching staff
  • Part-time teaching staff
  • Those responsible for leading the learning at the school, for example headteacher or proprietor
  • Supply staff: procured through an agency or otherwise
  • Peripatetic teaching staff: for example music and sports teachers
  • Advisory teaching staff who spend a proportion of their time in a teaching capacity, involving direct unsupervised learner contact
  • Home tutors who are employed to teach learners unable to attend school on a regular basis
  • Any other staff who may have more than one role within a school, one of which includes teaching: for example houseparent, careers advisor, tutors

 

Question 4: Is the following description broad enough to cover all the roles and responsibilities of learning support workers at independent schools?

Learning support workers at independent schools are those who support school teachers to:
  • plan and prepare lessons and courses of study for learners
  • deliver lessons to learner (including through distance learning and virtual techniques)
  • assess the development, progress and attainment of learners
  • report on the development, progress and attainment of learners

 

Question 5: Does this list cover all roles within independent schools which should be included in the learning support category?
  • Teaching assistant
  • Classroom assistant
  • Learning support assistant
  • Higher level teaching assistant (HLTA)
  • Special/additional needs assistant
  • Bilingual support assistant
  • Pastoral/welfare assistant
  • Support assistant
  • Tutors (residential and non-residential)
  • Early years assistants
  • Instructors
  • Cover supervisor
  • Technicians
  • Learning coaches

 

Question 6: Do you think there are there any other groups of staff employed in independent education settings who should be required to register with the EWC?

 

Question 7: Please add here any further comments on our proposals for requiring registration of staff of independent schools.