Source · Select Committees · Education Committee
Recommendation 57
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Accelerate efforts to reduce teacher working hours sooner than the current target.
Conclusion
We welcome the progress made towards reducing teachers working hours, acknowledging that the 5-hour reduction between 2016 and 2019 was a move in the right direction. However, workload remains a top concern for teachers. We welcome the Department’s ambition to reduce working hours by a further 5 hours but urge that this needs to be achieved much sooner than the Department’s 3-year target.
Government Response Summary
The government describes the launch of a new digital service 'Improve workload and wellbeing for school staff' which updates the previous Workload Reduction Toolkit. It commits to adding new resources and promoting the service, but does not address the urgency of reducing working hours.
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Government Response
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HM Government
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We have recently completed a user research project to update and improve the digital experience of users when engaging with the resources (previously accessed through the School Workload Reduction Toolkit). Based on feedback from users we have developed and launched a new service Improve workload and wellbeing for school staff with improved navigability, speed of access to resources and links to other helpful information. The service contains a range of supportive resources for schools to review and reduce workload, and improve staff wellbeing. Working closely with schools and trusts, we will continue to add new resources to the service and to promote it to ensure it remains a helpful, relevant and impactful resource to support schools and trusts with their workload reduction.