Dr. ThomasTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish statistics for every local education authority in Wales showing the number of supply teachers registered for casual cover and showing what incremental point on the main professional grade for teachers' salaries a well-qualified and experienced supply teacher may progress to.
§ Mr. Wyn RobertsInformation about the numbers of supply teachers registered with local education authorities604W is not held centrally. However, the numbers of teachers employed in maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools for periods of less than one month on an occasional or short notice basis as at January 1988 are shown in the following table:
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Number Clwyd 173 Dyfed 90 Gwent 225 Gwynedd 74 Mid Glamorgan 139
Number Powys 68 South Glamorgan 191 West Glamorgan 54 These figures exclude supply teachers with contracted employment of one month or longer.
LES's have discretion to pay supply teachers up to the maximum of the main scale and may also award them incentive allowances, subject to the requirements contained in the school teachers pay and conditions document 1988.