JNC Staffing update -09 06 26
Renfrewshire Council · 9 June 2026
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Item 11 Renfrewshire Joint Negotiating Committee for Teachers To: Joint Negotiating Committee On: 09 June 2026 Report by Joint Secretary (Management Side) Session 2026-27: Staffing Update 1. Summary 1.1. The annual staffing exercise which takes place each year in preparation for the following session to ensure that our establishments have the teaching capacity and resource required for effective delivery is well underway. This annual exercise includes scoping, mapping and matching of a range of different categories of teaching staff. For session 2026-27 proposals in regard to the allocation of various categories of staff is noted below. 1.2. Provisionally registered teachers (PRTs, formerly newly qualified teachers, NQTs): 65 NQTs are expected to join us and will be allocated to our schools for session 2026-27 comprising 37 Primary and 28 secondary PRTs. In the case of secondary particularly, this is well below the number we bid for (44), and in the case of both sectors, below the number we were initially allocated – even before subsequent withdrawals pre-August. 1.3. Primary permanent supply: as previously reported, teachers with this contractual status who were appointed in 2022 were matched to school in April 2025. Those appointed as primary permanent supply teachers in 2023 (35.2fte), who had all been temporarily allocated to longer term placements in schools for session 2025-26, will be matched to school from the start of session in August 2026. A further 4 (3fte) primary teachers require redeployment/transfer to permanent to school posts from August 2026. 1.4. Teachers with entitlement to permanency under the terms of the JNC20 Policy - Scheme for the Appointment of Temporary Teachers to Permanent Posts - SECONDARY: 20 secondary JNC20 teachers have been matched to school on a permanent basis from August 2026. Suitable vacancies, temporary or permanent, have still to be identified for 4 remaining secondary JNC20 successful applicants and they will be prioritised for emerging needs for temporary long term supply in line with the JNC20 Policy. For the first time under the terms of the Policy devised in 2015, ring-fenced interviews were conducted for vacant posts in 3 secondary subject areas: Art & Design, PE and Biology. 1.5. Teachers with entitlement to permanency under the terms of the JNC20 Policy - Scheme for the Appointment of Temporary Teachers to Permanent Posts - PRIMARY: with a view to the emerging need for increased primary teachers on the implementation of Reduced Class Contact Time ( RCCT) in
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primary and ASN schools from August 2027, plans are in place to provide the pre November 2025 applicants, 38 (30.9fte), with permanent supply status. Following application in November 2025 a further 11 (9.1fte) primary teachers obtained entitlement to permanency and will be considered for long term deployment from August 2026. 1.6. Primary – fixed term recruitment: to further augment the number of suitably qualified primary teachers available to us from August 2027 and to offer opportunity to current high quality non-permanent staff, including current PRTs, the desirability to conduct a primary fixed term recruitment process in the near future is recognised; this would leave us well placed when notification of the specifics of our allocation of Scottish Government funding to support implementation of RCCT is received, which we eagerly await. 1.7. Secondary staffing adverts: to date, over 49 vacancies in our secondary schools of either a permanent or temporary nature have been advertised in preparation for the start of session August 2026. 1.8. 1.0 fte fixed term 1 year allocation of a primary teacher for our 11 secondary schools and 2 ASN schools has been extended for a further session, to August 2027. 1.9. External secondments: several of these are to continue for a second session including 2 head teacher secondments to Education Scotland and a number of teaching staff (two secondary teachers and two primary teachers) continuing their engagement with the Centre for Teaching Excellence. 1.10. Primary Management Review: the progress of this process conducted in line with the Policy document, Compulsory Transfer Procedures (Promoted Teachers) Interim Version is almost concluded with a number of depute head teachers and principal teachers moving to their new choice of base school from the start of session in August 2026. A very small number have elected to remain in their current school meantime and will commence a period of 3 years’ cash conservation. 1.11. Reduced class contact time (RCCT) implementation planning: a steering group has been established comprising a number of workstreams – please see diagram - to ensure that we are well placed to take forward this initiative and change. 2. Recommendation 2.1. Members are asked to note the contents of this report.
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