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Skills4schools is an online resource to help school staff access learning opportunities at work.

By providing an online guide to training, development and career pathways, we aim to help staff develop in their current roles, make the move to new ones and take advantage of the new career opportunities created by the School Workforce Agreement.

More and more schools are changing their training priorities. Instead of concentraing on the minority of staff who already hold qualifications, they are shifting the resources in their training budgets to enable the vast majority to access learning and training opportunities.

Skills4schools aims to help school leaders and staff developers who want to ensure all their staff can access high-quality, relevant professional training and development.

How your school benefits

Whether they're a teaching assistant or ICT technician helping children get the most out of a lesson in the classroom, or a caretaker or cleaner ensuring the premises are clean and safe to use, your staff play a vital role in the day-to-day life of your school.

Skills Strategy

Skills for Growth The National Skills Strategy sets out a pathway to achieving a bold new ambition for three quarters of the population to go to university or get an advanced technical qualification by the age of 30. The Government will:

Funding

£££...Money is not always the obstacle you might think it is when staff wish to access learning or training.

Job profiles

Model job profiles covering three "families" of support staff role (teaching assistants, administrative/organisational staff and curriculum resource/support staff) have been agreed by the National Joint Council for Local Government Services.

Occupational standards

National Occupational Standards (NOS) are statements of performance standards which describe what competent people in a particular occupation are expected to be able to do.

DCSF Statistics

There has been a steady increase in the numbers of support staff working in schools in England since 1997. 

Partners

As well as staff in schools and colleges, UNISON members include frontline staff and managers working in local authorities, the NHS, the police service, the electricity, gas and water industries, transport and the voluntary sector.

Useful contacts

This is where you can find a variety of useful contacts, together with links to their websites.