Revised professional standards for teachers, produced by TDA, came into effect on 1 st September 2007, to link with the revised arrangements for Perfomance Management . Information on these standards can be found at the TDA website www.tda.gov.uk

To download a pdf version of the standards follow the link below:

Professional standards for teachers  

The numbers of support staff in schools and the diversity of their roles have increased greatly since 2003. Support staff now outnumber teachers as a proportion of the children’s workforce in schools, and make a huge contribution to the children’s learning, wellbeing and development. Nationally a lead in the development of support staff is taken by the Training and Development Agency (TDA).

TDA identify five broad groupings of support staff:

Professional and occupational standards for these groups can be accessed at the TDA website www.tda.gov.uk

Locally, the Workforce Development team and Human Resources have produced model job descriptions for a number of key support staff roles. Follow the link below to access the relevant pages within this site:

Link to Support Staff pages