Education Minister Jeremy Miles has outlined Welsh Government plans to reduce workloads for school staff in Wales. Workload was high on the agenda when teachers walked out in a national strike over pay earlier this year.
Headteachers have been working to rule, including not making any data returns or reporting on grant spending. Mr Miles told the Senedd that tackling school staff workload was “a priority” and a managing workload and a reducing bureaucracy group was established last autumn.
That group will now be “re-set” before the start of the new academic year in September “with immediate discussions taking place to agree how we take forward work to ensure that tangible improvements are seen by education staff, including teaching assistants, at school level”.
