What is the Quality Mark?
Supply teachers make an important contribution to the smooth running of schools and the Welsh Assembly Government wants to ensure that they are recruited and managed well, to allow them to give their best to schools.
The Quality Mark Wales has been launched, as a joint initiative between the Department for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills (DCELLS) and the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) to help drive up standards for everyone in the sector. The Quality Mark sets standards for agencies and LEAs to reach in areas such as the way they recruit and interview supply teachers, the way they check and manage their performance and the way they stay at the forefront of changes in the teaching sector.
Maintaining standards in education recruitment is vital and the benefits of the Quality Mark to LEAs, agencies, supply teachers and the schools they serve are immense. Schools and teachers deserve high quality agencies and this scheme will help both schools and teachers be more confident about the agencies they use. It will give increased confidence to schools, parents and pupils that staff supplied through agencies/LEAs are recruited properly. For the supply providers it will prvide both assurance and official recognition that the highest standards of recruitment practice are being adhered to; and teachers will be confident that they have selected an accredited and reputable service that will add value to their experience as supply teachers.
Objectives!
The Main objectives of the Quality Mark are:
- To recognise private sector supply agencies and LEAs who are able to demonstrate that they meet standards of good practice in managing and providing supply teachers for schools.
- To enable schools and temporary teachers to fell confident about the quality of the agencies and LEAs with whom they are dealing
- To recognise the contributions made by supply teachers, agencies and LEAs in supporting schools.
