Details of the in-service day agenda for 12th & 13th August 2024
Details of the in-service day agenda for 14th & 15th August
Details of the In-service day agenda for 15th February.
Practice Notes for 0 - 2 year old children. Published by the Care Inspectorate, this document has been designed to provide support and guidance to early learning and childcare (ELC) settings, including childminders. It shows the essential relationship between high-quality care and young children’s learning. It encourages staff to strengthen their self-evaluation approaches and supports continuous improvement to maximise the positive outcomes for our youngest children in Scotland.’
This is Good Practice Guidance from the Care Inspectorate. Reading this, are we doing the best we can for our children? Are we delivering excellence? What can others learn from our Practice?
Some amazing CLPL training being run be our Leaders of Early Learning. There are some webinars and some face to face sessions too. If you are interested in any of them, please let your Sub - Team Leader know and we can arrange your attendance through CPD Manager.
Information from Sarah Burton
Dear early years colleague
I work in early years in Scotland and as an early years tutor for the Open University and I am co-author of a free online OU short course on additional support for learning.
I wanted to let you know that it is only available for two more sessions in 2023, starting this week!
Enrol today: https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/index.php?categoryid=380
The course - a Nursery World Awards finalist 2022 - runs over six weeks and includes a free live one hour webinar with a speech and language therapist including the chance to reflect on the impact of Covid on young children and on our practice.
The course was produced by the Open University on behalf of the Scottish Government. It is aimed at anyone working with young children, including nurseries, childminders, early primary and foster care. You can work flexibly at your own pace - it takes about 12 hours to complete.
I'm attaching a flyer and I’ve copied further details below. I hope you'll be able to circulate in your networks and post on staff noticeboards – and I hope to see you at the webinars!
Key Dates
Enrol now for the January presentation which runs until mid February (you can complete at your own slower pace)
Enrol from 13 February to start on 13 March.
Free webinars with speech and language therapist are on Mondays at 7pm on 23 January and 27 March 2023
Sarah Burton
Associate Lecturer, E110 Young children's play and creativity
Co-academic lead: identifying and supporting additional support needs in early learning and childcare
https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/index.php?categoryid=380
Article for Openlearn COP26 Hub: Young children and the climate crisis: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education-development/young-children-and-the-climate-crisis
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/fellowship
01908 655000 ext83388
For all CDO’s, please use this checklist every payday to ensure all documents and information remains up to date and relevant. Thank you
OFFICIAL
The 2022 to 2023 Local Government Pay Award was agreed on 26 October 2022.
You will receive your first payment in respect of the 2022 to 2023 Pay Award, which will include backdated pay, in your December salary - on 13 December 2022.
This pay award covers the period from 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023 and sees:
An increase to the Scottish Local Government Living Wage rate to £10.85 per hour*.
For those on the Scottish Local Government Living Wage and SCP (Spinal Column Points)
19-24 a £2,000 uplift (calculated on a nominal 36-hour full-time working week).
A cap on the uplift for those currently earning £60,000 or more at a £3000 uplift (based on a
37-hour week).
At remaining SCP an undifferentiated 5% or a £1,925 uplift (calculated on a nominal 36-
hour full-time working week), whichever is larger.
An uplift to the Non Standard Working Hours/Points( NSWH/P) and Work Context and Demands(WCD) of 5%, effective from 1st April 2022.
To view the updated Pay and Grading Structure click here.
*Scottish Local Government Living Wage - effective from April 2022
*Earlier this year the council continued supporting - the Real Living Wage / Glasgow Living Wage – for Grade 1 employees and it increased the hourly rate from £9.50 to £9.90 backdated to 1 April 2022.
Therefore, if you are paid at Grade 1, your backdated pay for 2022 to 2023 will contain the difference between the Glasgow Living Wage you've received since April 2022 and the Scottish Local Government Living Wage rate of £10.85 per hour agreed as part of the 2022 to 2023 Pay Award settlement.
Annual Leave
An additional day of annual leave (pro-rated for part-time) to be added to the leave entitlement for all employees, this will be a permanent change to terms and conditions.
More information will be communicated to staff shortly.
SSSC
SSSC fees for all roles and grades will be paid on a recurring basis – further guidance on how payment will be made to the SSSC on behalf of employees by Scottish Government and the process for employees claiming reimbursement of any fees incurred from 1st April 2022 will follow.
Universal Credit
Staff who are in receipt of Universal Credit should note that the backdated pay may impact your payments.
More information will be communicated to staff shortly through a Staff Briefing.
National Insurance Contributions Changes
The UK Government has announced that the 1.25% National Insurance Contributions (NICs) increase, implemented in April 2022, will be reversed from 6 November 2022, meaning, some employees will see an increase in their net pay from November 2022 onwards.
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7/9/22
Hi everyone.
All folders and skills have now been added to Seesaw so after this week you can start to tag folders from the CfEX or RTA for each of the posts you upload to learning journals. Any questions, please ask.
Thank you