The Education Workforce Council has today (1 September 2022) published its revised Code of Professional Conduct and Practice.
The Education Workforce Council (EWC) is the independent, professional regulator for the education workforce in Wales, and is required in legislation to review the Code every three years. The 2022 review of the 2019 Code was completed following a consultation with, and feedback from, registrants, stakeholders, and the public. The revisions made have been mainly cosmetic, or to provide added clarification.
The Code specifies the standards of professional conduct and practice expected of 82,000 EWC registered education practitioners working across Wales and is intended to guide their judgements and decisions.
Part of a series of guides, the latest is aimed at those in both senior and middle leadership roles, and highlights some useful hints and tips to help guide registrants’ day to day professional judgments and decisions.
In addition to the good practice guides, the EWC also offers in-house training direct to registrants and employers on a range of topics including the Code, registration, and use of the Professional Learning Passport, as well as a range of support services and events.
The Education Workforce Council (EWC) has today (26 August) published its Fitness to Practise Annual Report 2021-22, setting out how the organisation has worked to safeguard the interests of learners and young people, parents, guardians, and the public.
As the independent professional regulator for education practitioners in Wales, one of the EWC’s core functions is to investigate and hear a small number of allegations that might call into question a registrant's fitness to practise.
The latest report includes data on the types of cases the EWC deals with (including those currently registered and those applying for registration), trends from year to year, and the profiles of those featured in cases.
The Education Workforce Council (EWC) has today (19 August 2022) published figures for trainee teachers who gained Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) in Wales this August.
The figures show a total of 1,236 individuals qualified as teachers in 2021-22, either following a full-time course of initial teacher education in Wales delivered by a university partnership, or, for the first time, through a part-time or salaried programme delivered by the Open University Partnership.
Some key facts and figures about this years’ newly qualified teachers are:
Full-time programmes
1,131 trainees qualified as new teachers through full-time initial teacher education programmes
55.4% were primary trained
44.6% secondary trained
72.6% were female
86% were under the age of 30
Part-time or salaried programmes
105 trainees gained QTS through the part-time or salaried initial teacher education programmes
72.4% were primary trained
27.6% were secondary trained
81% were female
37.2% were under the age of 30
All initial teacher education programmes that run in Wales are accredited by the EWC.
The Education Workforce Council (EWC) has today published its Annual Report and Accounts for the year ending 31 March 2022.
The document, which has been laid before the Senedd, details the work undertaken by the EWC throughout the financial year 2021-22 and outlines its key achievements.
Despite the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the EWC continued to operate to a high standard, fulfilling its role as an independent regulator safeguarding learners in the interests of parents/guardians, and the general public.
Highlights within this year’s report includes:
the highest number of applications for registration in our history and in turn an increase in our registration numbers, in particular in learning support staff
