In
North Lincolnshire motivation and self-esteem are high priorities. We're
committed to recruiting a well-qualified, talented and creative workforce, and
to supporting their Continuing Professional Development (CPD) throughout their
career. Everyone involved in working with children, young people and families
in North Lincolnshire has an entitlement to high quality support and provision
for CPD.
Our
commitment to our children and young people is to work for the principles embodied
in ‘Every Child Matters’; that is, for them to:
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Be
happy
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Stay
safe
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Enjoy
and achieve
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Make
a positive contribution
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Achieve
economic well being
CPD
is relevant to all staff. Staff working in support roles are becoming an
increasingly important part of the school workforce. The number and type of
support staff roles in schools have grown at a tremendous rate over the past
five years. And the Government estimates that around half a million people are
now working alongside teaching staff and there are around 30 different types
of support staff job roles.
This
huge expansion in the wider school workforce is an outcome of schools using
the flexibility available to them to organise their staff in a way that best
supports pupils’ achievement and well-being. The need for even more well-trained
and well-qualified support staff comes into sharper focus as workforce remodelling
continues to roll out and as initiatives such as Every child matters: Change
for children and extended schools have an increasing impact on the services
that schools provide.
Schools
need information about training and qualifications to support the effective
deployment of the workforce and identify career and development pathways.
There
are many qualifications and training programmes that contribute to support staff
development.
Common core of skills and knowledge for the children’s
workforce
In
April 2005, the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) published the Common
core of skills and knowledge for the children’s workforce. This sets out
basic skills and knowledge that everyone working with children, young people
and families should have.
The
common core covers six themes:
- effective communication and engagement with children, young people, parents
and carers
- child and young person development
- safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the child
- supporting transitions
- multi-agency working, and
- sharing information.
The
DfES believes that introducing the common core will:
- lead to greater understanding and improved communication about effective
practice, across different parts of the children’s workforce
- improve the life chances of all children and young people, and
- make it easier for agencies with responsibilities for children, young people
and families to work together.
CPD Directory for support staff working in schools within North Lincolnshire.
To
help support schools in planning for the future, we have recently publicised
our first Directory of CPD opportunities for school support staff. This
directory is intended to help schools and individuals plan their careers and
professional development routes.
The
document contains lots of useful links and resources which are broken down into:
- training needs profile
- training plan
- month by month calendar for 2006/07 academic year outlining what training
opportunities are available for support staff
- qualifications framework across the whole spectrum of support staff including
local providers
- professional development framework
- teaching assistants induction programme for the spring 2007 term.
- Career framework for teaching assistants.
- HLTA national standards and diagnostic tool.
- Useful websites.
- Useful contact names.
Useful
information:
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For further information please contact:
Sue
Atkinson – School Workforce Adviser, North Lincolnshire Council, Hewson House,
Station Road, Brigg, DN20 8XJ 01724 297182 or email sue.atkinson@northlincs.gov.uk
Caroline
Smith – Consultant : Workforce/CPD, North Lincolnshire Council, Education Development
Centre, Enderby Road, Scunthorpe, DN17 2JL 01724 297198 or email Caroline.Smith@northlincs.gov.uk.
Please
note: The above documents are in Portable Document Format
(PDF). You will need a suitable reader to view them. A reader can be
downloaded free from the Adobe
website (full instructions for downloading the reader are provided on the
site).