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ATL Conference 2010
Wednesday 31 March - afternoon session
Seventh session of Conference: 13.00 - 16.00
During this session there will be an address by Dr Mary Bousted, ATL general secretary.
Resolutions
56 Mentoring - carried
57 School co-operation - carried
58 Supply teachers - carried
59 Low emission transport for pupils - carried
60 Behaviour support in early years - carried
61 Collective bargaining - carried
62 Education rights and responsibilities - not taken
63 Teacher retention - carried
64 Independent school teachers and QTS - carried
56 Mentoring - carried
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
THAT Conference recognises the inconsistencies in advice and guidance given to teachers involved in mentoring students and NQTs. Conference calls upon the Executive Committee to:
(i) campaign for the consistent implementation of TDA guidance for ITT providers and schools;
(ii) consider producing an ATL publication giving advice for mentors.
Proposer: Alice Robinson, Executive Committee member
Seconder: Brian Ward, Executive Committee member
57 School co-operation - carried
BRADFORD BRANCH
THAT Conference rejects the notion that all schools within the maintained sector should be competitive with each other and advocates that schools should be able to work in a far more co-operative way in order to produce the best education results for the nation. Conference therefore calls upon the Executive Committee to press the government to ensure that admissions policies are fair and equitable across authorities and that all state funded schools abide by them regardless of status.
Proposer: Glyn Kenyon, Buttershaw Business and Enterprise College, Bradford
Seconder: Stuart Herdson, Unattached member, Bradford
58 Supply teachers - carried
CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH BRANCH
THAT Conference requests that the Executive Committee campaigns for the rights of supply teachers to ensure that those who are subject to complaints made against them will:
(i) be informed promptly of the exact nature of the complaint;
(ii) have the matter dealt with as speedily and equitably as possible.
Proposer: Pat King, Supply teacher, Cambridgeshire
Seconder: Margaret Street, Retired member, Cambridgeshire
59 Low emission transport for pupils - carried
KENT AND MEDWAY BRANCH
THAT Conference calls upon ATL to lead the way forward in encouraging all local authority provided transport for pupils to be low-emission.
Proposer: Zöe Fail, Supply teacher, Kent
Seconder: Julie Huckstep, Kent
60 Behaviour support in early years - carried
WILTSHIRE BRANCH
THAT Conference, mindful of the number of permanent exclusions of young primary school children, calls on the Executive Committee to press the government and local authorities to give a greater priority to primary behaviour support and to increase the resources available for early intervention as a way of assisting pupils at risk and their parents.
Proposer: John Hawkins, Unattached member, Wiltshire
Seconder: Phil Whalley, Wiltshire
61 Collective bargaining - carried
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
THAT Conference notes the work already undertaken by ATL in the independent, FE and academy sectors on workplace trade union recognition and collective bargaining. Conference is aware of the potential further fragmentation of national collective bargaining in schools through the growth of academies and calls upon the Executive Committee to further develop its strategy for workplace negotiation capacity in schools and colleges, based upon the common issues.
Proposer: Geoff Pye, Executive Committee member
Seconder: Malcolm St John-Smith, Executive Committee member
62 Education rights and responsibilities - not taken
WILTSHIRE BRANCH
THAT Conference, believing that education is a partnership, and that 'responsibilities' are as important as 'rights', and mindful of the fact that the presently proposed education bill has included 23 legally binding rights for pupils and parents with regards to the provision of education, calls on the Executive Committee to press the government to balance this by introducing a similar number of legally binding responsibilities for parents and pupils.
Proposer: Elizabeth Greed, Unattached member, Wiltshire
Seconder: John Hawkins, Wiltshire
63 Teacher retention - carried
INNER LONDON BRANCH
THAT Conference regrets the large numbers of both newly qualified and experienced teachers leaving the profession and calls upon the Executive Committee to investigate further the true reasons why this is so.
Proposer: Anupameya Jain, The Bridge Academy, Hammersmith and Fulham
Seconder: Abdul Choudhury, Mulberry School for Girls, Tower Hamlets
64 Independent school teachers and QTS - carried
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
THAT Conference, aware that there are a growing number of teachers within independent schools who may find themselves seeking employment in the state sector but who do not have QTS, asks the Executive Committee to examine the pathways by which independent school teachers can gain QTS whilst in service, and to lobby the government to extend provision of such opportunities for all teachers and educators in a similar position.
Proposer: Malcolm St John-Smith, Executive Committee member
Seconder: Geoff Pye, Executive Committee member
