WAMG is a national social partnership of 11 organisations representing employers, the government and school workforce unions. Since 2003 it has been at the heart of school workforce reforms including:
• remodelling
• changes to the teachers’ pay structure
• review of whole school staffing structures
• revisions to teachers’ performance management
• new professional standards
The common goal is to support schools in raising standards and tackling workload issues and the TDA is a key delivery partner. WAMG’s national social partnership is reflected in many local social partnerships working towards this same goal at local authority level.
WAMG has produced updated guidance on effective working for local social partnerships. The guidance sets out a broader minimum remit and focuses on fair play and rewards for support staff. WAMG has also produced a new model protocol designed to help local social partnerships review the way they work, promote good practice and encourage consistency of approach. WAMG’s new framework for issue resolution, which includes local social partnerships, is based on the belief that wherever possible, issues arising from implementation of the national agreement and revised performance management arrangements should be resolved at local level. The issue resolution process outlines how this can be achieved.
The new materials can be downloaded from the WAMG pages of the TDA website.
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