Leeds Xxxxxxx University. Leeds Xxxxxxx University, through the Head of the School of Education and Childhood and with the support of senior managers of the University will: provide appropriate guidance and support to ITE partners to: ensure that all partners are aware of the regulations and compliance requirements of ITE, the safeguarding of children and young people, and the provisions of equality and disabilities legislation. adhere to the requirements of relevant legislative provisions including: o the Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) by ensuring that all entrants to ITE courses are checked against the DBS barred list and subject to criminal checks; o the Disqualification under the Childcare Act (2006) and complying with the provisions of the Police Act 1997 by not sharing data with partners; and o agreeing with partner schools a common understanding of convictions that pose a barrier to joining or continuing a programme of ITT, and the circumstances under which concerns about a particular trainee should be referred to the police. o collecting and holding any information securely and in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (“DPA”) and any successor legislation to the GDPR and DPA. support individual partner schools and mentors in providing high quality training provision and apply a fair and transparent selection and de-selection process with partners. Support provided by the university partner will include: o providing schools with a named Link Tutor for each trainee on an assessed placement with the school; o ensuring that all partners are kept up-to-date with developments in ITE o ensuring mentor training and other professional training is available to partner schools. monitor and evaluate the quality of ITE provision by the partnership, and work with partners to act on the outcomes to drive continuous improvement in the quality of training provision and trainee outcomes. As part of this process, the university partner will: o involve partners in the recruitment and selection of trainees, the design, delivery, assessment, evaluation and improvement planning of the ITE courses; o manage and analyse data to drive improvement; o share with partners data about trainee performance, satisfaction ratings; employment and evaluations to inform self-evaluation and improvement planning by the ITE Partnership; o ensure that ITE quality assurance procedures are communicated, implemented and that any issues raised are add...
Leeds Xxxxxxx University. Carnegie School of Education Teacher Education 2017-2018 - Partnership Agreement Detailed Commentary
