Who we are
WAMG is a unique social partnership of organisations representing employers, the English and Welsh governments and school workforce unions that first came together as signatories of the National Agreement in 2003.
What's new?
March 2010
Remodelling Focus case study: Hexthorpe Primary School - support staff deployment (PDF, 248KB)
Local social partnership case study: Liverpool - effective practice (PDF, 626KB)
February 2010
The National Agreement seven years on: statement from the WAMG social partnership - English (PDF, 60KB)
The National Agreement seven years on: statement from the WAMG social partnership - Welsh (PDF, 85KB)
Local social partnership effectiveness survey 2009: summary of findings (PDF, 434KB)
Programme of work
23 February 2010
Since the last report, WAMG has held discussions on a range of subjects and work priorities, including:
RIG
STRB RIG evidence (SEN/leadership); working time; roles and responsibilities; leadership standards; licence to practice and CPD entitlement.
Support Staff Group
An action plan has been developed by the group. The Support Staff Group action plan identifies ways to raise schools’ awareness of the importance of CPD for the whole workforce and ways to ensure that schools know what CPD provision is suitable for their staff. It also highlights the importance of identifying best practice and sharing it with others.
Sub-WAMG
Deployment; response to the Secretary of State’s letter in December about workload; making good progress pilot; managing medicines in schools; achievement for all.
WAMG programme of work
Meetings will be arranged for the next six weeks on the basis of agreed work priorities. These will be as follows:
Support Staff Group
CPD.
RIG
Working time; roles and responsibilities; leadership standards.
Sub-WAMG
WAMG’s response to the Secretary of State’s letter about workload; workforce modernisation and development grant; licence to practice and CPD entitlement; personal tutoring; one-to-one tuition; extended services; new professional evaluation; local social partnerships; Lamb enquiry (workforce implications); IRU lesson planning guidance; deployment; themed discussion about school improvement and workforce implications.
