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  • Decision details
  • Decision details

    22/00091 - Alterations to the Academic School Year 2022-23

    Decision Maker: Cabinet Member for Education and Skills

    Decision status: Recommendations Approved

    Is Key decision?: Yes

    Is subject to call in?: Yes

    Purpose:

    Proposed decision:

    To alter the school academic calendar 2022-23 for local authority-maintained school to allow for the additional bank holiday on 19 September 2022.

     

    Reason for Decision:

     

    In England, local authority-maintained schools operating according to the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD) must open for 195 days.

     

    Of these, a maximum of 190 days involve teaching children and young people. The remaining five days are non-teaching days when teachers may be asked to undertake other duties related to their role as a teacher. These are often known as in-service training (INSET) days.

     

    The school term dates for Kent community, voluntary-controlled, community special or maintained nursery schools are determined by KCC and the local authority is the employer.

               

    Proposal

     

    In the DfE guidance National Mourning Advisory Education Guidance under section 15 - Bank Holidays, it states:

    The bank holiday announcement will not mean teachers will be required to teach an additional day. The DfE will reduce the minimum number of sessions for this school year via regulations and change the definitions in the schoolteachers’ pay and conditions document for the current year.

     

    In essence, teachers will teach one less day for the academic year 2022/23, down from 195 to 194 (including INSET days), or down from 190 to 189 (excluding INSET days) across 1,258.5 hours as opposed to 1,265 hours of directed time. An extra day of holiday will therefore need to be allocated by KCC as the employer.

     

    Decision:

    As Cabinet Member for Education and Skills, I agree to: alter the school academic calendar 2022-23 for local authority-maintained school to allow for the additional bank holiday on 19 September 2022.

     

    Publication date: 14/10/2022

    Date of decision: 14/10/2022

    Effective from: 22/10/2022

    Accompanying Documents: