The Department for Education has released an initial report from its Workload Reduction Taskforce. The taskforce will help support the Department for Education’s ambition to reduce teachers’ and leaders’ working hours by 5 hours a week within 3 years.
Initial recommendations are around two key areas;
- updating and reinserting the previously removed list of 21 administrative tasks that do not require the professional skills of a teacher into the school teachers’ pay and conditions document.
- strengthening the implementation of the 2016 independent workload review groups’ recommendations and maximising sign-up to the education staff wellbeing charter.
Final updates are due from the Taskforce.
