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Recommendations

Schools should:

  • R1 Implement Welsh Government guidance to provide a whole-school approach to preventing violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence (Welsh Government, 2015)
  • R2 Ensure that key messages around healthy relationships are embedded in the curriculum and reinforced regularly
  • R3 Build on the best practice identified in this report

Local authorities and regional consortia should:

  • R4 Ensure that all staff who work in schools complete the training set out in the National Training Framework (Welsh Government, 2016a)

The Welsh Government should:

  • R5 Publicise guidance further to ensure that schools and governing bodies are aware of the advice and guidance they contain
  • R6 Ensure that those involved in curriculum design and development for the health and wellbeing area of learning and experiences are aware of the important role schools have in implementing the VAWDASV Act 2015 (National Assembly for Wales, 2015) and include healthy relationships education in their work
  • R7 Provide access for staff who work in independent schools and colleges to the National Training Framework (Welsh Government, 2016a)

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The National Centre should:

  • R1 Develop its procedures for holding the providers to account for their performance and their compliance with the national policies
  • R2 Refine its marketing strategies in co-operation with providers to target more potential learners across the various communities of Wales

Providers should:

  • R3 Fully implement policies and practices introduced by the National Centre
  • R4 Improve their understanding of the governance arrangements and policies of the National Centre

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Recommendations

FE colleges should:

 
  • R1 Identify learners’ wider skills and abilities during initial assessments and include a suitable focus on communication, independence, employability and wellbeing within these
  • R2 Make sure that individual learning plans reflect the outcomes of initial assessments and that they include specific, measurable targets that link clearly to learners’ long-term goals and likely destinations
  • R3 Design independent living skills programmes of learning that:
    • are sufficiently challenging
    • include opportunities to develop skills that are relevant to learners’ needs and likely destinations when they leave the college
    •  have an appropriate balance between completing qualifications and learning activities
  • R4 Implement reliable systems to track the progress of all learners in relation to their individual starting points
  • R5 Track learners’ destinations when they leave the learning area or college accurately
Local authorities should:
  • R6 Provide colleges with relevant information about learners’ needs when they start college
  • R7 Develop a broader range of partnerships with the post-16 and voluntary sectors to develop and improve progression routes in the local area

The Welsh Government should:

 
  • R8 Review the collection of information on the outcomes of learners on independent living skills programmes to ensure that this provides an accurate picture of learners’ destinations across Wales

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Further education colleges should:

  • R1 Work more effectively with secondary schools to identify Welsh-speaking learners before they transfer to college and ensure that learners have all the information about support that they need in order to allow them to choose to continue their learning in Welsh
  • R2 Strengthen Welsh language strategic plans to increase the number of learners who learn in Welsh or bilingually, particularly in the occupational areas for which there is an increasing demand by employers for bilingual skills
  • R3 Ensure that there are sufficient staff available in each college to provide courses in Welsh or bilingually and to support staff who wish to learn Welsh or improve their Welsh
  • R4 Improve staff training on the methodology of teaching bilingually and ensure that there are sufficient resources and learning materials for Welsh-medium or bilingual courses
  • R5 Ensure that information about learners’ language ability, prior qualifications in Welsh and learning activities are correctly recorded on the Lifelong Learning Wales Record

The Welsh Government should:

  • R6 Help colleges to improve the quality of Welsh language strategic plans, including the use of data to set challenging targets to increase the number of learners who follow their courses in Welsh or bilingually
  • R7 Conduct regular reviews of the progress made by colleges against the targets in their strategic plans
  • R8 Improve data collection fields, and their associated guidance, to ensure that colleges record accurate information about learners’ linguistic abilities and the language of learning and assessment by activity
  • R9 Develop a national strategy to raise learners’ awareness of the advantages of choosing to continue to learn in Welsh when they transfer from school to college
  • R10 Ensure that there are sufficient resources and learning materials for Welsh-medium or bilingual courses

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Recommendations

The Welsh Government should:

  • R1 Promote the ‘Effective Management of School Workforce attendance’ document more widely
  • R2 Provide schools and local authorities with guidance on monitoring, recording and evaluating the impact of staff absence due to activities other than illness, such as training, conferences and school-to-school support
  • R3 Produce guidance on the effective management of headteacher absence
  • R4 Ensure that the provision of supply cover in the Welsh-medium sector is addressed when reviewing the teacher workforce strategy

Local authorities should:

  • R5 Ensure that training on managing workforce attendance is available for all headteachers and forms part of an induction package for all newly appointed headteachers
  • R6 Provide schools with regular benchmarking data on staff attendance in line with Welsh Government guidance

Schools should:

  • R7 Monitor the work of supply teachers regularly and ensure that all pupils continue to make appropriate progress when their usual classroom teacher is absent
  • R8 Provide supply teachers with feedback on their performance
  • R9 Ensure that supply teachers can always access teacher planning documents

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