24 May 2007
The Professional Association of Teachers (PAT) – which represents support staff in its Professionals Allied to Teaching (PAtT) section – has welcomed the Education Secretary’s announcement on the Support Staff Working Group.
PAT General Secretary Philip Parkin said: “We welcome this news and the SSWG’s report. We look forward to the Group’s recommendations when they have taken the plans forward, and to contributing to this ongoing work.
“PAT has been calling for a national pay and conditions structure for support staff for some time.
“School support staff play a vital role and deserve to be given a proper and professional career structure.
“At our 2006 Conference, members called for ‘a national pay and career structure that is commensurate with qualification, skills and ability and the huge responsibility undertaken when caring for and educating children’.”
Notes
Conference 2006 http://www.pat.org.uk/index.cfm/page/_sections.content.cfm/cid/258/navid/166/parentid/165
Motion speeches II: http://www.pat.org.uk/files/General/conf06mots2.pdf
