welfare assistant

Returns were received from 100 welfare assistants working with 98 children in 72 schools.

The welfare assistants were asked about their experience before taking up their current post.

Welfare Assistant tried again but child still refused.

Welfare Assistant takes S to medical room.

Approximately half of the assistants also wished to attend an induction course on the general role of a welfare assistant.

Welfare Assistant arrived and then disappeared!

Approximately half had organised or helped with playgroups and a similar number had previously worked as welfare assistants.

The welfare assistants' duties were wide-ranging with face-to-face instruction (under the teacher's direction) and general care and supervision taking up most time.

From the results of the survey it can be seen that many of the welfare assistants had varied and substantial experience of children and schools.

Dealt with by Welfare Assistant.

Welfare Assistant returns.

Welfare Assistant with Infants class gave me her telephone number so that I can arrange to have my hair highlighted by her daughter.

She became a Welfare Assistant with Kesteven County Council.

Left Welfare Assistant with class to go to see about Junior Staff Meeting Agenda.

Welfare Assistant and I chatted about life (i.e. something outside of school) whilst they busied themselves around us.

Apparently the Class Teacher has been unaware that the Welfare Assistant asked the Deputy Head for help.

The survey involved an analysis of all statutory assessment documentation as well as the administration of a detailed questionnaire to heads, class teachers and welfare assistants.

One feels, however, that a systematic start has now been made in the identification of current welfare assistant practice from which specific issues can be highlighted and followed up.

They also affect those - such as special-needs teachers or welfare assistants - who hold posts at the school but are not funded through the delegated school budget.

Head informs me that after play this morning a Welfare Assistant asked Deputy Head for assistance to bring a child into school who was refusing to move.

"People see movie stars holding dogs and they want one at home," says Emma Otto, welfare assistant at the Blue Cross adoption centre in Southampton.

There is a head of department for each side of the school, who has particular responsibilities for the curriculum, and each teaching group has a teacher and a welfare assistant.

For reasons of space the diaries are limited to those of the school secretary, school social worker, head of primary department, supply class teacher (juniors) and welfare assistant (infants).

The use of welfare assistants, non-teaching assistants, teachers' aides, auxiliary helpers and ancillary staff, which those who assist teachers with their non-professional duties are variously called, is not a recent innovation in either special or ordinary education.

This extends to the appointment of ancillary and technical staff, who would be expected to have the same sympathetic qualities, and to making a case for help from the authority's teaching and support services or for a welfare assistant to help with an individual pupil.