It is clear that the number of Support Staff in schools has increased rapidly in the last few years. Schools and Local Authorities have responded by providing much greater training and focus on all Support Staff, particularly HLTAs (higher level teaching assistants) and TAs.
With the increasing appreciation of the need for voice training for all parts of the school workforce, VCN has been asked to deliver a series of specialist workshops at a number of Support Staff Conferences held last year and this year in different parts of the country – Hampshire, Wiltshire, Poole, Lincoln, Derby, Wakefield, and Calderdale.