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All factsheets
These are all the ATL help and advice factsheets available to download, grouped by subject theme.
Your rights
- Supply teachers: working through an agency
- Teachers' statutory rights in the maintained sector
- Teachers' statutory rights in the independent sector
- Statutory rights support staff
- Support staff job descriptions and job evaluation
- Working beyond the age of 65: your rights
Pay and pensions
- Teachers' pay
- Local government pension scheme
- Payback time? What to do if your salary is overpaid
- Threshold and the upper pay scale
Sick leave and pay
Employment issues
- Seeking and gaining recognition in the post-16 sector
- Mythbusters: rarely cover
- Taking time off for CPD
- Private tuition
- Job references
- Job hunting
- Meetings with management
- Flexible working
- Classroom observation
- Leaving an academy and continuous service
Classroom issues
- Stop search and discipline
- Discipline in schools
- Searching for weapons
- Use of force to control or restrain pupils
- Allegations of abuse against staff
- Class sizes
Parental leave
- Maternity leave and pay
- Paternity leave
- Health and safety issues for new and expectant mothers
- Childcare vouchers
- Additional paternity leave and pay
- Adoption leave and pay
Health and Safety
Advice for FE
- Redundancy in the FE sector (for reps)
- Protection of children and vulnerable adults in FE colleges (for reps)
- Restructuring in FE colleges (for reps)
- Pay and conditions in the FE sector (for reps)
- Teaching qualifications and CPD in the FE sector
IT and data protection
- Working with computers
- Cyberbullying
- Data protection: your rights and obligations
- Social networking sites: how to protect yourself on the internet