[senco-forum] Non-Contact Time

Late in replying , but will add my situation, as it may help others to 
fight for more time. It always amazes me when this thread is raised that 
the amount of time SENCos have has no relationship to the number of 
children on SEN register!
I think those with more time take a lot of responsibilty for things that 
might otherwise be done by the Head/secretary/class teacher. eg PSP 
meetings, organisation of meetings, writing and distribution of IEP, 
liasing with EP, phone calls to chase outside agencies, line management 
of TAs, timetabling. Or maybe those of you with little non contact time 
are super human and I'm just incredibly inefficient....
200 on role primary school. SEN register 45, 6 statements . I work 2.75 
days for school. mostly teaching groups/individuals. I have a little bit 
of admin time each week, no PPA and my filing mostly done by the office 
staff. I line manage 12 TAS, do Child Protection, G&T and am on SMT. I 
think in effect I am inclusion manager.( I also work a further 0.75 for 
the county as an AST)
The thing that helps me most is coming off timetable for a week (2.75) 
at the end of half term. This means that i have more chance of keeping 
my groups going during the term and have a decent chunk of time to go at 
things at the end of term.
Kate
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