Teaching assistants in primary schools (FOI)Teaching assistants in primary schools (FOI)
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08 June 2021.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request
Please provide the following information, as at the date of this freedom of information request:
A
The overall number of teaching assistants (including similar roles, eg key worker) in each pay grade employed by the Government of Jersey to work in Government of Jersey maintained and fee-paying maintained primary schools (schools with pupils between the ages of four and 11).
B
A list of all Government of Jersey maintained and fee-paying maintained primary schools and the number of teaching assistants (including similar roles, eg key worker) in each pay grade employed by the Government of Jersey to work in each such school. If there are too few individuals per pay grade for some schools but not others, please provide the information for those schools where there are enough.
C
If you are unable to provide the information in question B, please provide the numbers of teaching assistants in each pay grade in each “cluster” of schools.
D
The overall number of teaching assistant roles (including similar roles, eg key worker) in Government of Jersey maintained and fee-paying maintained primary schools held by individuals who do not hold GNVQ Level 3 or equivalent qualifications.
Response
A
The table below represents the overall number of teaching assistants (including similar roles, eg key worker) in each pay grade employed by the Government of Jersey to work in Government of Jersey maintained and fee-paying maintained primary schools (i.e. schools with pupils between the ages of 4 and 11).
Teaching Assistant Framework - Primary School | TAF 03 | TAF 04 | TAF 05 | TAF 06 | TAF 07 | Total |
| Total | 78 | 58 | 143 | 169 | 16 | 464 |
B and C
The table below represents a list of all Government of Jersey maintained and fee-paying maintained primary schools and the number of teaching assistants (including similar roles, eg key worker) in each pay grade employed by the Government of Jersey to work in each school.
The Department have determined that to provide the specific number in each paygrade where that number is fewer than 5 would likely breach the privacy of individuals and therefore, Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) 201 Law has been applied.
Teaching Assistant Framework - By School | TAF03 | TAF04 | TAF05 | TAF06 | TAF07 |
| Bel Royal School | <5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | <5 |
| d'Auvergne School | <5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | <5 |
| First Tower School | <5 | 0 | 8 | 12 | <5 |
| Grand Vaux School | 0 | <5 | 7 | <5 | <5 |
| Grouville School | 7 | <5 | 10 | <5 | 0 |
| Janvrin School | 5 | <5 | 5 | 8 | 0 |
| JCG Prep School | <5 | 6 | <5 | <5 | 0 |
| La Moye School | 6 | 0 | 6 | <5 | <5 |
| Les Landes School | <5 | 0 | <5 | <5 | 0 |
| Mont a L'Abbe | 0 | 7 | 6 | 44 | 5 |
| Mont Nicolle School | <5 | <5 | <5 | <5 | 0 |
| Plat Douet School | <5 | 0 | 11 | 7 | <5 |
| Rouge Bouillon School | <5 | <5 | 10 | 19 | <5 |
| Samares School | 0 | <5 | 8 | <5 | <5 |
| Springfield School | <5 | 6 | 0 | 5 | <5 |
| St Clement School | <5 | <5 | 5 | 6 | <5 |
| St John School | 5 | <5 | <5 | <5 | 0 |
| St Lawrence School | 6 | <5 | <5 | <5 | 0 |
| St Luke School | <5 | <5 | <5 | <5 | 0 |
| St Martin School | 6 | 0 | 5 | <5 | 0 |
| St Mary School | 0 | <5 | 6 | <5 | 0 |
| St Peter School | <5 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 0 |
| St Saviour School | <5 | 0 | 7 | 11 | <5 |
| Trinity School | <5 | <5 | 5 | <5 | 0 |
| Victoria College Prep | <5 | 0 | <5 | <5 | 0 |
D
It is estimated that to review the records for all teaching assistants and keyworkers, 464, to determine whether they hold a GNVQ Level 3 or equivalent qualification would far exceed the time allowed under the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014 therefore Article 16 has been applied.
Articles applied
Article 25 - Personal information
(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018.
(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –
(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and
(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.
Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive
(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations.
Regulation 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014 allows an authority to refuse a request for information where the estimated cost of dealing with the request would exceed the specified amount of the cost limit of £500. This is the estimated cost of one person spending 12.5 working hours in determining whether the department holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting the information.
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