Basis for the Implementation of 'Rarely Cover'

We, the Workforce Agreement Monitoring Group (WAMG) - also known as the Social Partnership - have agreed the basis on which the provision that teachers should rarely cover for absent colleagues should be implemented from 1 September 2009.

We attach a paper setting out the proposed changes to the STPCD and the accompanying guidance to give effect to it. These changes remain subject to the normal consultation that is undertaken for the whole of the STPCD prior to its formal implementation. We also attach a paper setting out the process schools are advised to follow in order to achieve ‘rarely cover’.

Dr John Dunford
ASCL
General Secretary

Dr Mary Bousted
ATL
General Secretary

Ed Balls
DCSF 
Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families

Brian Strutton 
GMB
National Secretary

Mick Brookes
NAHT
General Secretary

Chris Keates
NASUWT
General Secretary

Sarah Messenger
NEOST
Employers’ Secretary

Christina McAnea 
Unison
National Secretary for Education Service Unit

Peter Allenson
Unite
National Officer

Philip Parkin
Voice
General Secretary

Jane Hutt
Minister for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills Welsh Assembly Government