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Support and practical resources for schools to help reduce workload, including the school workload reduction toolkit.
Initial recommendations from the taskforce working towards reducing the workload of teachers and leaders.
Reports looking at responses to DfE's consultation about teachers’ workload.
Advisory group report on removing unnecessary workload associated with data management and the government’s response.
The Secretary of State has established a workload reduction taskforce to support the government’s ambition to reduce teachers’ and leaders’ working hours by 5 hours a week within 3 years.
Tips from school leaders, teachers and sector experts to help schools reduce workload.
Principles, considerations and examples of practical support to help ITE providers reduce the workload faced by trainee teachers and their school partners.
Findings from teachers, middle leaders and senior leaders on their working hours and perceptions of workload.
Materials to help school leaders and staff support teachers in the early stages of their career, to help reduce workload.
Apply for funding to research, implement and measure solutions to unnecessary teacher workload.
Findings from the 2016 teacher workload survey.
The group considered how to remove unnecessary workload associated with data and evidence collection in schools.
Resources to help you promote staff wellbeing and support workload reduction in your school.
Government announces membership of taskforce working towards reducing teacher and leader workload, alongside support to embed flexible working.
Poster and pamphlet on reducing teacher workload. To print the pamphlet, select: landscape, fit to size/no margins, and flip on short edge.
Report examining teacher's workload and working patterns for 2013.
Report by the Education Development Trust (EDT) into workload reduction in schools in England.
Contact details of project leads for 2016 to 2017.
Report about eliminating unnecessary workload for teachers when managing data, including principles and recommendations.
Report by the Education Development Trust (EDT) on school-led projects aimed at reducing teacher workload.
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