All Queensland state school, regionally-based and central office teams involved in the allocation, distribution and management of school staffing resources.
This policy sets out the Department of Education’s (DoE’s) commitment to providing Queensland state schools with staffing resourcing and the principles for using those resources.
Queensland state schools are entitled to access and manage all staffing resources they are allocated to deliver essential educational services that maximise the learning outcomes for all enrolled students, including students with disability, and to administer the school efficiently, effectively and economically.
DoE’s state school staffing resourcing principles are aligned with sound resource management.
Principle
What this means for the department
Accountability and responsibility
Flexibility and local decision making
Budget integrity
Term
Definition
Centrally-funded positions
Centrally-funded positions are notionally allocated or re-allocated directly to the school. Funding for these positions is mostly held centrally. A Teacher Relief Scheme (TRS-SSE) provision is budgeted each year and paid to the school to help meet short-term classroom teacher absence costs.
School-funded positions
School-funded positions are established by the school and all costs associated with the employment of staff members in those positions must be met by the school. School payments for these positions include on-costs that are calculated to meet leave, superannuation and other indirect employee costs. Payments for school-funded positions cease when the staff member is absent, enabling the school to use those funds to employ a replacement. A funding recoveries process is used to manage payments for staff whereby required funds are transferred from the school bank account to central holdings.
TRS–SSE
Teacher Relief Scheme – Sick Special Emergent (TRS–SSE) is the appropriation budgeted for and paid directly to schools for them to fund the replacement of centrally funded classroom teachers when other internal arrangements are unavailable.
Previous seven years shown. Minor version updates not included.
1.0 Queensland state school staffing resourcing
For further information, please contact: Director, Organisational Design, Human Resources Email: sbs.staffing@qed.qld.gov.au
Uncontrolled copy. Refer to the Department of Education Policy and Procedure Register to ensure you have the most current version of this document.
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