Appendix B

Conduct of the review
(see paragraphs 6 to 10)

Consultations

1. The School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Act 1991 requires the Review Body to give relevant organisations the opportunity to submit evidence and representations on the issues arising from the remits and directions given to it by the Secretary of State. The organisations consulted to fulfil this statutory requirement were:

Associations of local education authorities

National Employers' Organisation for School Teachers

Bodies representing governors of community, foundation and voluntary aided schools

Agency for Jewish Education

Association of Foundation and Voluntary Aided Schools

Catholic Education Service

Church of England General Synod Board of Education

Education Office of the Methodist Church

Foundation and Voluntary Aided Schools' Association

Free Church Federal Council

Institute for School and College Governors

National Association of Governors and Managers

National Governors' Council

Bodies representing school teachers

Association of Teachers and Lecturers

National Association of Head Teachers

National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers

National Union of Teachers

Professional Association of Teachers

Secondary Heads Association

Undeb Cenedlaethol Athrawon Cymru (National Association of the Teachers of Wales)

2. The Review Body invited evidence on the following matters:

• recruitment and retention, economic and funding issues, and other factors which have a bearing on the setting of teachers' pay levels;
• workload and related conditions of employment issues;
• recruitment into initial teacher training and the recruitment and retention position in schools with a particular focus on London;
• the basis on which the post-threshold upper pay scale for classroom teachers should operate;
• the basis on which special needs allowances are awarded;
• the pay arrangements for ASTs;
• the impact of all the changes taking place on the pay of heads and other leadership group members, including the impact of the prescribed money which the Secretary of State said would be made available to support progression;
• pay issues arising for those in charge of LEA services and PRUs, staff in EECs and unattached teachers generally;
• the remit from the Secretary of State in a letter of 3 August 2000;
• a direction from the DfEE, concerning affordability, in a letter of 29 November 2000.

Evidence

3. The Review Body received evidence from most of the organisations it consulted under the Act, from the Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) and from other organisations and individuals including: the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted); the Teacher Training Agency (TTA); the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf and the Association for the Education and Welfare of the Visually Handicapped who submitted joint evidence; and the National Association of Foundation and Aided Primary Schools.

4. The Review Body took oral evidence from the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, the Minister for School Standards and DfEE officials; the National Employers' Organisation for School Teachers; the seven bodies representing school teachers listed above; Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools on behalf of Ofsted; the Chief Executive of the TTA; the National Governors' Council; the National Association of Governors and Managers; the Foundation and Voluntary Aided Schools' Association; and the Association of Foundation and Voluntary Aided Schools.

Visits

5. Between March and July 2000 members of the Review Body visited schools in the following LEA areas:

Anglesey	Kingston upon Hull (including the EAZ)
Brighton and Hove	Kingston upon Thames
Camden	Liverpool (an Excellence in Cities area)
Derby City	Swansea
Cumbria	Torbay
Gloucestershire

6. A total of 33 schools were visited in 2000, comprising: 12 primary schools (including 3 voluntary aided schools); 11 secondary schools (including 1 voluntary aided school, 1 beacon school and 1 technology college); and 10 special schools (including 1 foundation school and 1 beacon school).

Surveys and studies

7. A teachers' pay survey was completed for this report relating only to leadership group members. That part of the normal survey relating to classroom teachers has been deferred until May 2001 when the effects of the threshold and other changes are likely to be clearer. In addition, the Review Body commissioned a survey and three studies in 2000 relating to teachers' workloads and recruitment and retention as follows:

• Teachers' Workloads Diary Survey by the Office of Manpower Economics and BMRB International;
• A Study of Teachers' Workloads by BMRB International;
• The Recruitment and Retention of Classroom Teachers (Phase 1 - desk study) by Whitmuir Management Consultants; and
• The Recruitment and Retention of Classroom Teachers (Phase 2 - case studies) by IRS Research.

Meetings

8. The Review Body met formally on 22 occasions between March 2000 and January 2001 for its main remit or its special review of the threshold standards and related matters for classroom teachers.

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