CIPD

I think this just has to come down to the fact that the roles are different. Not allowing anyone flexibility because one group doesn't get it isn't really helpful overall. Certainly in our school, support staff contracts are different to teaching ones…

I think your entitlement is generous to start with, which is great. Beyond that, it seems right to me that the presumption should be unpaid (or using holiday for those who can), unless they can demonstrate that they can make up the time effectively. In…

I got the welcome email, the apology email and then shortly after an email asking me if I am too busy to get CIPD qualified. Well yes, obviously, but I wasn't 20 years ago when I did those exams ...

Peter Cheese gave an excellent presentation on current/future business challenges at the Kingston Business School event last week. Don't know if there's anyone at the CIPD who might know if the slides could be uploaded here? It was a great talk!…

I've emailed some PDFs over, so let me know if they don't arrive for any reason Freya. We moved away from Educare this year - there are always limitations with an online platform, but we found the VWV version to be more aligned with our needs (though…

Pinch away! We've developed a whole section of our intranet (Firefly) around information that our new starters might need - covering amongst other things an introduction from the Head, academic overview, pastoral structure, safeguarding, health and safety…

Have you looked at ISQAM at all? We're putting six of our middle managers through the programme at the moment, and the report back has been pretty good so far.

Nothing madly developed yet, but our intention this year is to invite all our new starters for September in on the same day in June.

Previously as you said, this was done on an ad-hoc basis with their Head of Department, but we've specified the date…

Sorry Keith I was being unclear - what I meant was that if her total entitlement is correct (including the pro rated bank holidays) then whether she's using that entitlement for the days when she is working that happen to be bank holidays, or for additional…