Teaching and support staff roles
- Can unqualified teachers and support staff lead PE lessons? Unqualified teachers and support staff can lead PE lessons as long as other requirements are met. Read expert advice covering insurance, after-school clubs, and meeting Key Stage 1 staffing ratios.
- Employing unqualified teachers: requirements Find out the rules on employing unqualified teachers, including who's eligible and what work they can do.
- Higher level teaching assistant (HLTA): qualification requirements Learn what qualification requirements you should use when hiring an HLTA, and how you can support a TA to step up.
- Higher level teaching assistants (HLTAs) delivering lessons Understand the legal requirements for HLTAs delivering lessons and covering absence, and read advice on when and for how long your HLTAs should be used in this way.
- Intimate care: responsibility of school staff Schools must make reasonable adjustments for pupils who are not yet toilet trained, under the Equality Act 2010. Understand who should change nappies in school, how to work with parents and how to make sure staff are equipped to support these pupils.
- Leading practitioner: responsibilities and pay Get an overview of the leading practitioner post, including the main responsibilities and how to set the individual pay range.
- Mandatory training for school staff Be clear on the areas your staff need training in and how often to update their training. Use our template to keep track of any training that staff members complete and when they need to renew it.
- Teaching assistants: expectations at different levels Understand the typical duties of TAs at levels 1 to 4, based on guidance from the National Joint Council (NJC) for local government services.
- Teaching assistants: role and responsibilities Understand the regulations around teaching assistant (TA) roles and responsibilities, including ‘specified work’, and learn about deploying TAs effectively using research from the DfE.
- Upper pay range (UPR): additional responsibilities Find out about your requirements around having teachers on the upper pay range (UPR) take on additional responsibilities, including rules around payments.
