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Returning to work On 3rd June, Kirsty Williams, Minister for Education, held a briefing in which she outlined some changes for schools, colleges and universities. The announcement gave details of schools reopening on Monday 29th June, with restricted class sizes, summer term extended by one week and autumn half term becoming two weeks.
How our decisions will be led As you are aware we deliver a number of different types of provision and the pace at which face-to-face delivery will start to return and how, may differ for each of these programmes. We will be working closely with delivery teams in each of these areas to prioritise which groups of learners will need to return first, whilst of course following government guidelines and looking at individual circumstances of staff, health and safety requirements and social distancing guidelines. Louise Williams, Operations Director, continues to head a group of key team members who are working carefully through the guidelines, carrying out reviews of working environments and developing policies and procedures to allow us to start to return when it is safe to do so. The feedback from Louise’s team, will also inform which groups of staff and learners can return over the summer and how we will do this.
What this means for ACT? We will not be rushing with the process of bringing everyone back to work. We will do what is appropriate for our staff, learners and stakeholders. However, we are of course keen to start bringing back some face-to-face learning where we can, particularly for vulnerable groups of learners, those in need of practical assessment or tests/exams and learners struggling to engage with online delivery.
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