Transcript Staffing under the ILNNP - Supporting Low SES School Communities

Staffing under the Improving
Literacy and Numeracy National
Partnership
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Background
The Improving Literacy and Numeracy National
Partnership aims to achieve the following outcomes:
• improved student performance in target groups
(including students from disadvantaged backgrounds
and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students) in
literacy and/or numeracy in participating schools;
• effective identification of areas in participating
schools where support is needed and where
improvement has occurred, through monitoring and
analysis of literacy and numeracy performance; and
• improved capability and effectiveness of literacy
and/or numeracy teaching in participating schools.
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Resources – tied grant
The schools involved in the Improving Literacy and
Numeracy National Partnership have been provided with
additional resources in the form of a tied grant.
The size of the grant is based on two factors:
• the size of the school and hence the number of
teachers involved
• the proportion of students in the school in the
bottom 2 bands in NAPLAN (2010 and 2011).
For example, over the life of the Improving Literacy and
Numeracy National Partnership, a school of 500
students with about 30% in the bottom 2 bands on
NAPLAN will receive approximately $170,000 whereas
one with 800 students with 45% in the bottom 2 bands
will receive $320,000.
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Using the tied grant
• The Improving Literacy and Numeracy
National Partnership tied grant can be used
to provide additional professional learning in
literacy or numeracy.
• The funds must be used in accordance with
the Department’s Professional Learning
Policy for Schools – Section 6.8.
• If schools use this grant for a casual or
temporary teaching or non-teaching
position, CEPS Code 306 is used.
• NB From 2014, the 229 ELSNP schools
should use CEPS Code 038 for teaching staff
and 052 for non-teaching staff.
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Website
www.ilnnp.nsw.ed
u.au
Schools can
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Salary on costs
Salary on costs (including statutory requirements
such as payroll tax and superannuation) apply for
any employer who engages staff in NSW. They
are calculated as a percentage on the base gross
salary.
DEC salary on costs have historically been
managed centrally, and schools have not needed
to consider their impact.
Use continuum
Provide data
Under National Partnerships, there is a move to
increase flexibility and authority in schools and
therefore revised treatment of salary on costs is
being implemented.
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Staff Monitoring Sheet
• Schools will be provided with a Staff
Monitoring Sheet to complete each semester
detailing staff employed under temporary
engagements and any higher duties
allowances.
• Schools will be invoiced for any higher duties
appointments.
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Salary on costs
• On the Staff Monitoring Sheet, schools will be
asked to detail information such as the names
of staff members engaged in temporary and
higher duties positions, their serial number,
position and step (if a classroom teacher).
• When the details are confirmed by schools,
schools will be invoiced for any higher duties
allowances applied in the Improving Literacy
and Numeracy National Partnership.
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Calculating salary costs
A Salary Cost Calculator is available to support
schools in determining indicative staff costs for
budgeting purposes. (www.ilnnp.nsw.edu.au)
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Salary Cost Calculator
• The Salary Cost Calculator can assist schools
and inform school budgeting.
• It can be used to determine the indicative
costs of temporary teaching and non-teaching
staff for a semester.
• The Salary Cost Calculator does not need to be
completed and returned to Improving Literacy
and Numeracy National Partnership.
• The semester 2 Salary Cost Calculator includes
holiday pay until the end of January.
• The following slides contain examples of
approximate calculations made using the
Salary Cost Calculator.
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Salary Cost Calculator
• Please note that due to the complexity of
award conditions and allowances attracted by
various positions the cost calculator will only
be a guide.
• The reconciliation using the Staff Monitoring
Sheet will be fully costed by the National
Partnerships Finance support unit who will
apply all award conditions to ensure that
actual costs are calculated and recoupment is
accurate.
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A classroom teacher (step 13) has been
employed full-time for one semester
The total cost includes total on costs
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This example shows 2 Generalist Paraprofessional
Positions. One position is for 4 days per week and
the other is for 2 days per week. The total includes
the total on costs for both positions.
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Higher Duties
• Schools should follow procedures in
accordance with section 1.5 of the Teachers
Handbook when implementing higher duties
allowances. In particular, refer to section
1.5.2.7 for guidelines for selection of staff to
relieve in higher positions.
• Remuneration via way of higher duties
allowance comes with certain conditions, such
as the rate of payment for leave in excess of 5
days and the rate of payment applicable for
school vacations. Please refer to section
1.5.2.5 of the Teachers Handbook for further
information.
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Higher Duties
• The Higher Duties Allowance form is available
from the Human Resources website.
• Where a permanent teacher is released to
take up a temporary executive position, the
position should be filled using higher duties
allowance arrangements. A temporary teacher
can be engaged to backfill the permanent
teacher who has been released. Schools
should refer to existing guidelines around
temporary teacher engagements for further
information.
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Higher Duties
• The payment of higher duties allowances
cannot be billed to a CEPS code.
• Schools will be provided with a Staff
Monitoring Sheet to complete for each
semester, detailing staff employed under
temporary engagements and any higher duties
allowances.
• Upon confirmation of the anticipated costs of
staffing based on the details in the staff
monitoring sheet, schools will be invoiced for
any higher duties allowances and for the
additional on costs for temporary
engagements.
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Higher Duties Allowances
The following slides demonstrate a method of
calculating approximate higher duties
allowances using the Salary Cost Calculator.
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Contacts
Peter Lorking
Assistant Director Literacy and Numeracy
9244 5600
[email protected]
Helen Evans
Principal Education Officer
Improving Literacy and Numeracy National
Partnership
9244 5387
[email protected]
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