Early Education representative Anne Roberts, a Swansea schools inspector and former headteacher, said the Welsh Assembly's proposal to give schools flexibility in deciding how additional support funds are spent was an important step forward in relieving teachers' workload.
Mrs Roberts, who is the former development officer of Early Education in Wales, said, 'A school head and their staff will be able to choose whether they need an extra classroom assistant or maybe someone who can help with photocopying and form-filling. Paperwork is a time-consuming thing, some of which you don't have to be a teacher to do.'
Announcing the change management project and an additional 3m in administrative support for schools last week, Welsh education minister Jane Davidson said, 'It is important that each school considers its own particular needs in a practical way tailored to its circumstances.' The pilot will take place in 2003-04 with the longer-term aim of rolling it out across all schools in Wales, and funding for administrative support will rise to 15m by 2005-06.
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