GOVERNMENT RESTRUCTURING OF MANAGEMENT POINTS

At present a restructuring of management points is taking place and is likely to become law early
in the New Year. Basically, it can be summarised as follows:

• Management Points will become Teaching and Learning Responsibility Payments (TLRs)
• TLRs will be paid only if the following criterion is applicable to the post:

Criterion
‘A teaching and learning responsibility payment may only be made to a teacher who is
accountable for a significant, specified responsibility focused teaching and learning, that is
not required of all classroom teachers, clearly defined in the job description of the TLR
payment holder, and requiring Teachers’ professional skills and judgement. The TLR
payment should be for a sustained responsibility in the context of the school’s staffing
structure needed to ensure continued delivery of high quality teaching and learning.’

• TLR1 will have a value between £6,500 - £11,000 whilst TLR2 between £2,230 - £5,500
• In order to qualify for TLR2 a job must involve all the following factors:

Factors
1. Impact on educational progress beyond the teacher’s assigned students
2. Leading, developing and enhancing the teaching practice of others
3. Having accountability for leading, managing and developing a subject or curriculum area
or student development across the curriculum

• For TLR1 factors 1 – 3 above, plus factor 4 below, must be applicable to the post:
4. Having line management responsibility for a significant number of people

• I must produce a revised staffing structure by December 2005 and publish it showing how
those shoes jobs carry management points will fit into the new structure
• We then have 3 years from the date of that publication to move to these new scales
• At the end of December 2008, those whose jobs cannot be assimilated into the new structure
will lose their Management Points
• There should not be any problem with HOF’s, Year Leaders and/or those who have points
directly related to teaching and learning. These will have their job descriptions slightly
amended to fit the criterion and the 3 or 4 factors (TLR2 and TLR1 respectively)
• Between December 2005 and December 2008 I will also be advertising new post on either
TLR1 or TLR2, so for a time there will be a mixed economy
• 1st January 2009 the mixed economy will cease and everyone with relevant managerial
responsibility will be on a grade within:

TLR2 1. £2,250 TLR1 1. £6,500

2. £3,750 2. £8,000
3. £5,500 3. £9,500
4. £11,000

Depending on the job weighting against the criterion and 4 factors

This is a radical restructuring and should not be seen as simply a “paper exercise”.

The Government are simply saying that management points which do not fulfil the criterion and
relevant factors are to be scrapped and schools must ensure that within the new structure jobs
must be paid on a value for money weighting. At the conference I was at the comment by the
provider was:

‘The Government want to make their intentions clear and give time for schools and individuals to
get themselves sorted’.

I personally think that it is only fair that this information is shared as soon as possible.

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Nobody should panic about this. Anyone concerned, please see me.

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