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General Teaching Council for Wales Cyngor Addysgu Cyffredinol Cymru General Teaching Council for Wales ANNUAL REPORT 2013-2014 Contents page Foreword by the Chairperson Executive summary Introduction Planning the Council’s activities Objective 1: To maintain and promote the highest standards of professional conduct and practice Objective 2: To provide an independent, representative and authoritative voice for the profession on teaching issues Objective 3: To foster reflective practice and professional development in teaching Objective 4: To communicate the positive contribution of the teaching profession to society Objective 5: To provide efficient, effective and robust finance, personnel and administrative systems that support the delivery and communication of the Council’s objectives Objective 6: To contribute to the arrangements to reconfigure the GTCW as a new professional body for the wider education workforce Council membership and member attendance at Council and Committee Meetings Summary Financial Statements Notes to the accounts Foreword by the Chairperson Dear colleague, This is the penultimate annual report of the General Teaching Council for Wales which I am very pleased to introduce. The Council in its present form as the statutory professional regulatory body for school teachers will soon have an extended remit. From April 2015, we will be a reconfigured and renamed Council – the Education Workforce Council – which will also register and regulate teachers in Further Education, and, from the following year, learning support staff in schools and Further Education. The Council will then be responsible for some 70,000 education practitioners - almost double the current number of registrants. This development makes a great deal of sense in the context of the range of adults found supporting the work of teachers in schools and the learning pathways open to 14-19 year olds. In itself, the extension of professionally-led regulation to FE teachers will do much to raise the status of the teaching profession in that sector. It was natural, therefore, that much of this past year was dominated by the Council’s engagement with the National Assembly’s legislative process, following the government’s introduction of the Education (Wales) Bill in July 2013. Council was active throughout the legislative stages in seeking to shape the detail of the Bill based on its fourteen years’ experience of professional regulation. The Education (Wales) Act received Royal Assent in May 2014. As a Council, we are delighted that our systems, processes and staff will continue into the new organisation because we will remain the same legal entity. This is testament to the quality of what we have put in place since our inception. We have already begun to prepare for the transition to our widened remit and I will say more about that in my final annual report next year. Working within the above context, we have maintained a business-as-usual approach. We have ensured that our regulatory work – registration and professional standards casework - has continued to high quality and to timescale. Over 37,600 teachers were registered in the year with 53,000 on-line searches undertaken by LAs, schools, agencies and members of the public. The number of cases we dealt with increased again this year, including 52 professional standards cases and 58 applications for suitability cases. Under our equality scheme, for the first time our report gives various analyses including a breakdown of our professional standards and suitability casework by gender, age, ethnicity, language and disability. This demand-led work continues to have big financial implications for us as a Council as we are not in control of the level of our registration fee income. During the year we responded on behalf of the profession to various Welsh Government and Estyn consultations and made submissions to the Tabberer and Hill reviews. We completed our involvement in the EU-funded project to develop a policy on educators’ professional portfolios and were able to use the Council’s earlier thinking on recording and self-reflection to help shape the project outcomes. We are pleased that the Welsh Government is currently actively considering a professional development portfolio. Operationally, we have administered successfully the Welsh Government programmes to support 2,300 teachers through the induction and early professional development programmes. We took on an added role from the Welsh Government and I am pleased to report that we succeeded in allocating a mentor to all eligible NQTs by the October 2013 half term. This was a major improvement on the first year’s arrangements. We also were asked to take on expanded roles in the second year of the Masters in Educational Practice programme. In October, our tenth Wales Education Lecture was given by Professor Laura McAllister, Chair of Sports Wales. This now well-established event brought together educationalists and the sports community for an excellent evening on the role of schools in inspiring involvement in physical activity. Sadly, for financial reasons, we will not be able to hold a lecture in 2014. We continued to maintain good working relationships with partner organisations and this will continue to be important as we transition to an expanded organisation with a wider range of stakeholders. We have increased our communication tools through the launch of a School Contact Person scheme and we have now approximately 100 school contacts receiving email updates in addition to our website and Twitter communications which we use regularly. It is satisfying to know that, internally, we have run a tight ship. The Wales Audit Office gave an unqualified audit opinion on the 2012-13 accounts. Our internal controls have been verified by our internal audit contractors who have given us high levels of assurance about the quality of our systems. Our cycle of internal policy reviews has ensured that our approaches remain relevant. Council members testify to the high quality of support they receive from staff. I wish to end my Foreword with an important comment about finances. Our full annual accounts document, describes the difficult position we find ourselves in at the end of the financial year. In planning for our final year as GTCW, we were not permitted by the Minister to increase our registration fee by £3. As a result Council entered a seventh year with the same level of income. We have made all the cuts it had been possible to make without eroding our core regulatory and advisory purposes, even to the point of allocating the anticipated remaining general reserve to balance the budget. This is clearly an unacceptable situation for an independent body, with a further consequence that the EWC will inherit no financial reserve from the GTCW. I cannot overstate how strongly the Council recommends that the Minister should set the Council in its reconfigured form free of government constraints over its registration fee income. My thanks go to the staff of the GTCW for the professional way in which they have conducted themselves over recent years. It has been at times unsettling for them. It is, therefore, all the more pleasing that their futures and that of the Council as a whole are now secure as we move to become a professional regulatory body with an expanded remit. Yours sincerely, Angela Jardine Chairperson Executive summary Key Successes during 2013-2014 The General Teaching Council for Wales, in meeting its operational objectives, highlights the following key successes during the year 2013–2014: To maintain and promote the highest standards of professional conduct and practice Registered over 37,500 teachers Maintained public and professional confidence in teaching by effectively administering over 111 professional standards cases Facilitated access to the Register, enabling over 50,000 online searches by the public, employers and members To provide an independent, representative and authoritative voice for the profession on teaching issues Participated in national reviews into Initial Teacher Training and the Future Provision of Education Services Hosted the Wales seminar of the BERA-RSA report ‘Research and the Teaching Profession’ To foster reflective practice and professional development in teaching Ensured some 2,300 teachers in the first three years of their careers were supported by efficiently administering funding for teachers’ Induction, Early Professional Development and the Masters in Educational Practice Participated in an international EU funded project to develop a ‘Policy for Educator Evidence in Portfolio’ To communicate the positive contribution of the teaching profession to society Contributed to professional debate by successfully organising the tenth Wales Education Lecture as a high profile event Successfully increased visitor numbers to our stand at the Urdd National Eisteddfod To provide efficient, effective and robust finance, personnel and administrative systems that support the delivery and communication of the Council’s objectives Set a balanced budget for 2014-15 in the face of extreme financial constraints Planned the final year of operations of the GTCW prior to reconfiguration as the Education Workforce Council To contribute to the arrangements to reconfigure the GTCW as a professional body for the wider education workforce Hosted a briefing for Assembly Members which helped to shape debate around extending professional regulation Presented detailed analysis and evidence on the Education (Wales) Bill to the Children and Young People Committee of the National Assembly, and to the Minister and officials Introduction This Annual Report of the General Teaching Council for Wales covers the operational year 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2014. The General Teaching Council for Wales is the self-regulating professional body for teachers in Wales and was established by the 1998 Teaching and Higher Education Act. The Council came into being on 1 September 2000. The 1998 Act was amended by the Education Act 2002. General Teaching Councils also exist in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The GTCW has sought to co-operate with its sister Councils and to learn from their experiences.
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