School Direct definition
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For School Direct routes the Lead School arranges Placements with, and, if required, the support of the University.
Lead Link Tutors are university-based staff who work with Link Tutors to quality assure training across a school cluster or School Direct Alliance.
School Direct partners agree to comply with the University’s requirements for Quality Assurance of Advanced Pedagogy 1 and Advanced Pedagogy 2 training where appropriate (see School Direct Compliance Checklist).
Each School Direct trainee is allocated a Link Tutor who maintains liaison and support for the trainee, mentor, and the professional tutor/School Direct co-ordinator in the school.
The School Direct partnership will agree to employ all means possible to ensure that the trainee teachers are not disadvantaged, harassed, offended or insulted by anyone on the basis of the categories outlined above.
The Programme Co-ordinator has overall responsibility to liaise and work with the partnership in relation to the design, operation and assessment of the School Direct programme.
If the School or one of its Alliance Schools is unable to provide appropriate training for a School Direct Trainee as required by this Agreement, for any reason, then the School is responsible for finding an alternative school(s) to provide such training, and the University will be notified.
The School Direct Partnership has a responsibility to ensure appropriate measures are in place with regard to Health and Safety of trainee teachers.
It is the responsibility of all members of the School Direct partnership to ensure safeguarding procedures are adhered to.
Headteachers in a School Direct partnership are asked to complete and return, to the alliance lead and University, a brief Health & Safety audit/checklist in relation to the environment that trainee teachers will be working in.