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I am pleased to announce that I have published a review into “The Proposed Registration of Teachers and Others Who Support Learning in the Independent Sector with the Education Workforce Council” today. The main focus of this review was to set out the views of stakeholders on the question of registration, including any identified strengths and weaknesses.


The Education (Wales) Act 2014 (the Act) received Royal Assent on 12 May 2014\. The Act introduces a wider registration system that makes provisions for teachers, FE teachers, and learning support workers in FE and schools to register with a reconfigured body to be known as the Education Workforce Council (the Council).


During the passage of the Act through the National Assembly for Wales there was both written and oral evidence presented to the Children and Young People (CYP) Committee calling for practitioners within independent schools to register with the Council.


However, the registration of staff in independent schools did not form part of the original policy intention. I made clear that a better understanding of the implications of such a decision would be needed, before it would be possible for me to make an informed decision on whether the independent sector should be included in the requirement to register.  

I gave a commitment to undertake a review within two years of the Act receiving Royal Assent, on the impact of requiring teachers and those working in the classroom to support learning in the independent schools sector, to be registered.


The Education Act 2002 places a statutory requirement for certain independent schools to be registered with the Welsh Ministers and inspected by Estyn.  The independent schools that have to register are those which provide full\-time education for 5 or more pupils or which provide education for at least 1 pupil of that age for whom there is an SEN statement.  However, there is no requirement for the teaching and learning support staff in those schools to register with the EWC.  Independent Schools are considered private businesses or charitable enterprises and the teachers working in such establishments are not required to hold Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).


Following the Assembly Elections, it will be for the next Government to consider next steps and a way forward.


 


 


 


 







Translation:


 
Mae'n dda gennyf gyhoeddi fy mod wedi cyhoeddi adolygiad heddiw ynghylch a ddylai fod yn ofynnol i athrawon ac eraill sy'n cefnogi dysgu yn y sector annibynnol gofrestru gyda Chyngor y Gweithlu Addysg. Prif ffocws yr adolygiad oedd nodi sylwadau rhanddeiliaid ar y syniad o gofrestru, gan gynnwys unrhyw gryfderau a gwendidau.

Cafodd Deddf Addysg (Cymru) 2014 (y Ddeddf) Gydsyniad Brenhinol ar 12 Mai 2014\. Mae'r Ddeddf yn cyflwyno system gofrestru ehangach sy'n gwneud darpariaethau i athrawon a gweithwyr cymorth dysgu mewn Addysg Bellach ac ysgolion gofrestru â chorff diwygiedig o’r enw Cyngor y Gweithlu Addysg (y Cyngor).

Wrth i'r Ddeddf fynd drwy Gynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru, cyflwynwyd tystiolaeth ysgrifenedig a llafar i'r Pwyllgor Plant a Phobl Ifanc yn galw am gofrestru ymarferwyr mewn ysgolion annibynnol gyda'r Cyngor. 

Fodd bynnag, nid oedd cofrestru staff mewn ysgolion annibynnol yn rhan o'r bwriad polisi gwreiddiol. Dywedais yn glir y byddai angen gwell dealltwriaeth o oblygiadau penderfyniad o'r fath cyn y byddai modd i mi wneud penderfyniad gwybodus ynghylch a ddylid cynnwys y sector annibynnol yn y gofyniad i gofrestru. 

Ymrwymais i gynnal adolygiad ymhen dwy flynedd ar ôl i'r Ddeddf gael Cydsyniad Brenhinol ar effaith y gofyniad i gofrestru athrawon ac eraill sy’n cefnogi dysgu mewn ysgolion annibynnol.

Mae Deddf Addysg 2002 yn cynnwys gofyniad statudol i ysgolion annibynnol penodol gofrestru â Gweinidogion Cymru a chael eu harolygu gan Estyn. Yr ysgolion annibynnol sy'n gorfod cofrestru yw'r rheini sy'n darparu addysg lawn\-amser i 5 neu fwy o ddisgyblion o oedran ysgol gorfodol neu sy'n darparu addysg ar gyfer o leiaf 1 disgybl o’r oedran hwnnw sydd â datganiad AAA. Fodd bynnag, nid yw'n ofynnol i'r staff addysgu a'r rheini sy’n cefnogi dysgu yn yr ysgolion hynny gofrestru gyda Chyngor y Gweithlu Addysg. Ystyrir bod ysgolion annibynnol yn fusnesau preifat neu'n fentrau elusennol ac nid oes yn rhaid i athrawon sy'n gweithio mewn ysgolion o'r fath feddu ar Statws Athro Cymwysedig.

Yn dilyn Etholiadau'r Cynulliad, mater i'r Llywodraeth nesaf fydd ystyried y camau nesaf a'r ffordd ymlaen.