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• LGPS: Latest developments (04/02/9600)

  A broad framework agreement for reforming the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) was finally negotiated between the Local Government Association and the local government trade unions on 21 December.

• Local Government Pension Scheme LGPS developments (04/02/5600)

  21 December 2011 A last-minute delay has been encountered in finalising a broad framework agreement between the Government and the local government trade unions on an acceptable reform process for the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS). However, progress has certainly been made on defining this process over recent days, and urgent efforts are underway to resolve the last area of difficulty, especially since the Government has been emphasising for some time that broad agreement must be reached by the end of this year or a solution will be unilaterally imposed by ministers. Further background to this situation is given belo

• Aspect Transfer of Engagements to Prospect (19/12/2011)

  The appointed independent scrutineers, Electoral Reform Services (ERS), have now officially confirmed the following detailed postal ballot results on Aspect’s transfer of engagements to Prospect.

• Aspect members vote Yes! to Prospect transfer (07/12/2011)

  In a postal ballot on Aspect's transfer of engagements to the Prospect trade union 92.9 % voted in favour and 7.1% against.

• Result of Aspect ballot on industrial action over pension reforms (11/11/2011)

• Wednesday 30 November: Stand up for fair pensions (06/10/2011)

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• Vacancy: Senior Adviser (Birth-11) (04/02/5600)

• Soulbury unions call for end to pay freeze (04/02/8400)

  Trade unions representing Soulbury-paid local authority staff have called for an end to the pay freeze.

• Quality assurance and professional rigour essential says Aspect (18/07/2011)

  Quality assurance and professional rigour will be more valuable than ever in the new terrain of education and children’s services says Aspect in a new policy document.

• 2011 Early Childhood Education Group seminar (04/02/1200)

  Principles, Pedagogy and Practice in Early Childhood is the theme at the 2011 Early Childhood Education group seminar

• Aspect speaks out on the English Baccalaureate (04/02/6000)

  Aspect Submission to the House of Commons Education Select Committee Inquiry into the English Baccalaureate (E-Bac).

• Youth and community education officers face the future (09/03/2011)

  Youth and community education officers are to meet at their annual conference in April.

• EYP Status funding decision welcomed (27/01/2011)

  The Government’s decision to continue funding the Early Years Professional Status (EYPS) programme for the coming financial year is to be welcomed

• March for the alternative economic policy (22/01/2011)

  Aspect members are to join the TUC March for the Alternative on Saturday 26 March 2011.

• Aspect Council opens the debate (23/12/2010)

  Aspect’s national council, meeting in November, has opened a wideranging discussion among the union’s membership on the course the union should take over the next period.

• Aspect gives evidence to the Hutton Public Service Pension Commission (09/12/2010)

  THIS IS THE FULL ASPECT RESPONSE TO THE CALL FOR EVIDENCE TO THE INDEPENDENT PUBLIC SERVICE PENSION COMMISSION

• Michael Gove’s White Paper undermines the collaborative approach (24/11/2010)

  The changes announced by education secretary Michael Gove threaten to undermine the collaborative approach that is central to educational progress Aspect, the union for education improvement and children’s services professionals said today Wednesday 24 November 2010

• “Sarah Teather is wrong”: John Chowcat (18/11/2010)

  The decision, announced by children’s minister Sarah Teather, that children’s centres serving deprived areas will no longer be required to appoint staff with Qualified Teacher or Early Years Professional status is wrong said Aspect general secretary John Chowcat.

• ‘CWDC funding cut a mistake’: John Chowcat (16/11/2010)

  The government’s decision to withdraw funding for the Children’s Workforce Development Council will weaken frontline service delivery across the whole range of children’s services Aspect, the union for education and children’s services professionals, today

• NAYCEO members vote in favour of union with Aspect (11/10/2010)

  The National Association of Youth And Community Education Officers (NAYCEO) is joining up with the Association of Professionals in Education and Children's Trusts (Aspect) following a secret ballo

• More successes for Aspect’s BTEC (05/10/2010)

  Aspect’s Btec Qualification in Education and Children’s Service Development goes from strength to strength

• Aspect National Council vacancies (11/06/2010)

  Nominations are invited to fill posts falling vacant on Aspect’s National

• Caution call by Aspect on schools (25/05/2010)

  Responding to the schools proposals contained in the Queen’s Speech Aspect, the school improvement and children’s services union, called for caution and an evidence-based approach.

• Campaigning to secure EYP status (25/05/2010)

• EYP put politicians on the spot (26/04/2010)

  Early Years Professionals in Aspect, the children’s services union, have challenged major politicians to clarify their positions on EYP professional status and career prospects

• Child protection work made more difficult by Shoesmith judge (26/04/2010)

  Today’s High Court judgement in the Sharon Shoesmith case will compound the problems faced by social workers in dealing with this immensely complex area of work said Aspect, the children’s services union, today.

• Kent warned over children’s services cuts (31/03/2010)

  Professional schools improvement staff warn that Kent County Council plans to cut children, families and education services threaten the achievements of recent years.

• GSCC finally agrees Lisa Arthurworrey can practice (08/03/2010)

  In a landmark decision, the General Social Care Council has finally agreed to implement the decision of the Care Standards Tribunal that Ms Lisa Arthurworrey can be placed on the professional social work register.

• ‘Professional expertise remains essential’: CSPN (28/01/2010)

  The umbrella body covering professionals working in children’s services has warned that key areas of professional expertise are under pressure.

• Aspect acts on workers’ rights for foster carers (14/01/2010)

  A specialist foster carer who was denied basic rights at work is to take Norfolk County Council to an employment tribunal. Backed by Aspect Sandra Bullock is seeking to establish her legal status as ‘ a worker'.

• Aspect welcomes Social Work Taskforce proposals (01/12/2009)

  Aspect welcomes Social Work Taskforce proposals – and calls for funding guarantees

• 16th - 20th November 2009 is anti bullying week (10/11/2009)

  Many local authorities will be sponsoring events linked to this annual event. At least they should be, because education and social care are two of the three employment sectors with the highest rates of bullying, according to numerous surveys.

• Aspect is at the Nursery World Show (10/11/2009)

• TUC back fair pay, quality services and innovation (17/09/2009)

  Britain trade unions have unanimously supported a policy proposal from Aspect backing fair pay and conditions for staff in the 2.7 million strong children’s workforce linked to measures for high quality integrated services and innovation in social pedagogy.

• Aspect to respond on consultation on roles and tasks of social workers (26/08/2009)

  Following the publication of the interim report of the Social Work Task Force, The Children’s Workforce Development Council is “seeking to develop a clear statement of the roles and tasks that social workers should perform”.

• Social Work Taskforce produces interim report. (31/07/2009)

  The Social Care Taskforce has produced its full interim report entitle

• Schools White Paper under the spotlight (16/07/2009)

  The government’s new white paper Your Child, Your Schools, Our Future: Building a 21st Century Schools System comes under the spotlight when the annual conference of the Association of Professionals in Education and Children’s Trusts meets in Leeds

• Practical advice for hard-pressed social workers (06/07/2009)

  Aspect – the Association of Professionals in Education and Children’s Trusts – is publishing today much-needed practical advice for social workers and their managers.

• Education professionals call for quality assurance (30/06/2009)

  “The devolution of school improvement budgets raises questions of quality assurance in the future support of schools and the challenge to raise standards.

• Quality call by education professionals (27/06/2009)

  Delegates to the national Early Childhood Education conference in Salford this weekend heard calls for a sharper focus on quality in early years education.

• Key European pedagogue to speak at early childhood conference (13/06/2009)

  Professor Dr. Ferre Laevers – who directs the Centre for Experiential Education at the Universiteit Leuven in Belgium – is a key speaker at the 2009 Aspect early childhood education conference.

• Aspect wins union learning funds (20/05/2009)

  Aspect has been successful in its bid to unionlearn for more funding, over the next two years, to continue an ambitious programme to recruit more Union Learning Representatives in local authorities.

• Aspect welcomes children’s social work proposals (04/02/4400)

  Aspect, the children’s services union today welcomed the direction taken by the government’s in its response to Lord Laming’s children’s social work proposals.

• No reason for panic measures:TUC (04/02/8000)

  The Trades Union Congress has issued advice to union members over the current flu outbreak. http://www.tuc.org.uk/pandemicflu

• Close the credibility gap say EYP leaders (04/02/7600)

  Raising pay levels and full professional equality with teachers is the minimum needed to close the credibility gap that is undermining the government’s EYP strategy said union leaders today.

• Aspect on the march (02/04/2009)

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• Aspect and the new secondary curriculum (02/04/2009)

• Aspect in new national youth service training programme (27/03/2009)

  Aspect is part of a consortium of training providers that is to deliver a new national skills and training programme for the youth service workforce

• Aspect leaders back TUC ‘Put People First’ march (23/03/2009)

  At its meeting last weekend the Aspect national council urged Aspect members to join fellow trade unionists in the Put people First demonstration

• Aspect calls for rights for specialist foster carers (04/02/6800)

  In the wake of the Norfolk adoption case, Aspect calls for rights for specialist foster ca

• Aspect submits memorandum to the School teacher's Review Body (15/01/2009)

  Submission on the system of reward for leaders, to enable them to be paid in a transparent and consistent way for the wider range of leadership arrangements that schools are increasingly involved in

• Tackle staffing shortages in children’s social services (14/01/2009)

  Aspect today called for urgent action to tackle staffing shortages in children’s social services.

• Aspect welcomes children’s workforce initiative (10/12/2008)

  Aspect, the children’s service union will tomorrow welcome new government proposals to strengthen the children’s workfo

• Specialist foster carers deserve employment rights. (03/12/2008)

  Children’s services union Aspect today called for a new employment deal for frontline childcare workers.

• Tackle children and families social work problems (20/11/2008)

  ASPECT calls for early action to tackle children and families social work problems

• Aspect calls for early action to tackle childrens and families social work problems (04/02/8000)

  Aspect calls for early action to tackle childrens and families social work problems

• Aspect and the New Secondary Curriculum (26/10/2008)

• ASPECT meets DCFS over Early Years Professionals’ pay and conditions (28/07/2008)

  ASPECT meets DCFS over Early Years Professionals’ pay and conditions

• ASPECT welcomes ‘fruitful dialogue’ on EYP career development (18/07/2008)

  Aspect meets with the CWDC

• ASPECT calls for more powers for children’s trusts (23/06/2008)

• Wanted! Inspirational CPD leaders (23/06/2008)

• Early years educationalists meet this weekend (23/06/2008)

• Early years education specialists focus on special needs (04/02/3600)

  Top specialists in the fields of special needs education, in the Vygotskyian approach to early years education, and in child development and education feature at Aspect’s Early Childhood Education group annual conference in June this yea

• Education of Looked After Children (03/05/2008)

• Chowcat welcomes Children’s Plan boost (03/04/2008)

  Aspect today (03-04-08) welcomed the package of measures to boost the Children's Workforce announced by the government.

• Aspect and education welfare managers agree new protocol (04/02/9600)

  A new protocol to underpin co-operative and collaborative work between local authority education welfare and school improvement services has been endorsed by Aspect’s national council and by the council of the Association of Education Welfare Managers (AEWM).

• Early years professionals call for parity and a national pay structure (21/03/2008)

  Union leaders representing Early Years Professionals have called for a national pay framework and are to lobby the government for guarantees that their status is genuinely equivalent to Qualified Teacher Status.

• Aspect to join public sector workers lobby in June (21/03/2008)

  Aspect members will join teachers, health workers, probation officers, social workers, civil servants, childcare workers and firefighters among public service workers representing the six million public sector workers in the UK who are going to London in June to lobby MPs over the future of public service and to call for fair pay.

• Early years professionals call for parity and a national pay structure (11/03/2008)

  Union leaders representing Early Years Professionals have called for a national pay framework and are to lobby the government for guarantees that their status is genuinely equivalent to Qualified Teacher Status.

• ASPECT issues new guidance on Structured Professional Assessment pay points (07/01/2008)

  Aspect has issued new guidance on Structured Professional Assessment pay points (SPA) for members employed in local authorities and related organisations under Soulbury Committee terms and conditions of employment.

• Soulbury Agreements: ASPECT publishes new pay spine (07/01/2008)

  Aspect has issued a document detailing the new pay spine for education improvement staff employed under Soulbury Committee terms and conditions of employment.

• Soulbury Update (17/12/2007)

• ASPECT welcomes 'tough demands' in children's plan (11/12/2007)

  The Association of Professionals in Education and Children's Trusts today welcomed plans to strengthen and integrate children's services and raise the standard of early years education and care, announced today by Children and Schools Secretary Ed Balls.

• Soulbury Employers' Side Final Pay Offer 2007 (16/11/2007)

• New DCSF Consultation on proposed Children's Plan (28/09/2007)

• New Relationship with Schools Survey (24/09/2007)

• Healthy schools and school improvement (06/07/2007)

• Soulbury 2007: pay claim submitted (19/06/2007)

  Aspect is demanding for a number of key improvements to be incorporated into the next Soulbury pay agreement.

• Aspect wins seat on national local government pension scheme review group (01/05/2007)

• Primary review: Aspect response (28/02/2007)

• New children's services charter published (31/01/2007)

• Annual conference extended to full two-day professional development programme (22/01/2007)

• Time for government to deliver on personalised learning (04/09/2006)

  A deeper and more serious debate must be initiated on the key benefits of personalised learning.

• DfES praises recent Aspect initiatives (24/07/2006)

  Aspect has received praise from a top-ranking DfES official for its recent work supporting educational improvement professionals.

• Tomorrow's professionals - TUC opens fresh debate (23/06/2006)

  Composition of the workforce is changing, says TUC.

• Aspect responds to government guidance on schools causing concern (23/06/2006)

  The Department for Education and Skills has published draft guidance on schools causing concern. Read Aspect's comments at www.aspect.org.uk/policy/submissions.

• New HMCI to play critical role in children's services agenda (08/06/2006)

  Aspect today welcomed the appointment of Christine Gilbert CBE as the new Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools (HMCI) in England.

• Aspect annual conferenc to explore key theme of personalised learning (10/04/2006)

  Aspect’s 2006 annual conference will address the key issue of personalised learning.

• White Paper: Government “running with its eyes shut”, says Aspect (27/02/2006)

  Proposed changes to Education and Inspections Bill do not go far enough, Aspect is arguing.

• Plans for educational advisory staffs in Northern Ireland announced (23/11/2005)

  Angela Smith, the Minister for Education in Northern Ireland has issued a statement on the review of educational administration in Northern Ireland. The statement, given at a conference on 22 November, outlines the government's plans for the future of educational advisory staffs in the province.

• New schools white paper - Aspect reaction (17/11/2005)

  The government's new schools white paper, Higher Standards, Better Schools For All marks the next phase of controversial plans to reform the school system.

• Majority vote in favour of non-party political fund (04/02/2800)

  Members have voted in favour of the establishment of a non-party political fund for the Association.

• New policy document on future impact of integrated children’s services published (11/07/2005)

  The Association has published a policy document linking the future impact of integrated children’s services and the role of educational improvement professionals.

• Talks with NASWE begin (06/06/2005)

  The Association has met with leading figures from NASWE, the professional association representing social workers.

• School governors and self-evaluation (06/06/2005)

  The further involvement of school governors in the process of school self-evaluation moved a step closer after talks held at Cambridgeshire County Council.

• New-look magazine launched (19/04/2005)

  The Association has launched a new magazine for members.

• ASPECT MEMORANDUM TO SCHOOL TEACHERS’ REVIEW BODY (15/01/1970)

  Submission on the system of reward for leaders, to enable them to be paid in a transparent and consistent way for the wider range of leadership arrangements that schools are increasingly involved in …

• ASPECT MEMORANDUM TO SCHOOL TEACHERS’ REVIEW BODY (15/01/1970)

  Aspect submission on the system of reward for leaders, to enable them to be paid in a transparent and consistent way for the wider range of leadership arrangements that schools are increasingly involved in ….

• Aspect acts on workers’ rights for foster carers (13/01/1970)

  A specialist foster carer who was denied basic rights at work is to take Norfolk County Council to an employment tribunal. Backed by Aspect Sandra Bullock is seeking to establish her legal status as ‘ a work

• Urgently tackle staffing shortages in children’s social services (19/07/1033)

  Aspect today called for urgent action to tackle staffing shortages in children’s social services.

• Aspect acts on workers’ rights for foster carers (12/01/1970)

  A specialist foster carer who was denied basic rights at work is to take Norfolk County Council to an employment tribunal. Backed by children’s services union Aspect Sandra Bullock is seeking to establish her legal status as ‘ a wor

• Aspect acts on workers’ rights for foster carers (12/01/1970)

  A specialist foster carer who was denied basic rights at work is to take Norfolk County Council to an employment tribunal. Backed by children’s services union Aspect Sandra Bullock is seeking to establish her legal status as ‘ a worker’.

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