Caroline Ansell – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Caroline Ansell on 2016-04-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to assist teachers in managing their workload.

Nick Gibb

We are continuing our extensive work with the profession to remove unnecessary workload so that teachers can concentrate on teaching and not bureaucracy and paperwork.

This includes establishing three review groups to tackle the top issues raised by teachers in the Government’s Workload Challenge in 2014: marking, lesson planning, and data management.

The reports from these review groups were published on 26 March 2016. We have accepted all their recommendations for Government.

As the reports make clear, it is for everybody involved in education to act on the principles and recommendations in these reports so teachers can focus on what really matters – inspiring their pupils to achieve their full potential.

We will continue to work with the teaching profession to make sure they have the ongoing support they need. We have recently conducted the first biennial Teacher Workload Survey, a commitment which will allow us to track teacher workload over the coming years. The results of the first survey will be published later this year.