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School-based Itinerant Staff Operational Grant

Purpose

This grant assists schools to meet the annual operational costs associated with school-based itinerant staff.

Expenditure guidelines

Operational costs include telephone, photocopying, postage, access to technology, administrative assistance, utilities and professional development and training.

Duration of program

Ongoing

Policy reference

Board of Management Decision BM 98/109

Eligibility

School Centre Types

State High School, Campus, State Special School, State School and Community School

Associated Units

Special Education Unit, Special Education Developmental Centre, Special Education Developmental Unit
School centre types and associated units listed above with staff based at the centre who meet the following criteria:

travel from their base on a regular basis to other schools during the normal day
work outside their base school for more than the equivalent of two days per week
perform itinerant duties as part of a program supported by the district cluster of principals and approved by Manager, Education Services
are employee type coded as per an official category of staff.

The official category of staff of all employees eligible for the grant includes advisory visiting teachers, guidance officers, senior guidance officers, specialist support staff (e.g. speech language pathologists, learning support teacher, communication teacher, integration teacher, occupational therapist, physiotherapist, psychologist, nurse), Behaviour Management staff, instrumental music teachers, LOTE and ESL teachers.

Reading Recovery teachers are not included in this list.

Schools should contact the Principal Human Resource Consultant in their Regional Office for confirmation of itinerant staff numbers prior to grant payments in April and October. It is currently the responsibility of Regional Human Resource Consultants to report each itinerant staff member on the Specialist Support Staff collection spreadsheet.

Form of assistance

Fixed cash grant to base school

Payment details

Payment details for School-based Itinerant Staff Operational Grant
Payment	During month of	Proportion of allocation paid
Semester 1	April	100% of semester allocation
Semester 2	October	100% of semester allocation

Allocation of funds

Schools with 5 or fewer itinerant staff

Current Rate x number of school-based itinerant staff

Schools with more than 5 itinerant staff

Current Rate x number of school-based itinerant staff

Plus

Current Rate x number of school-based itinerant staff in excess of 5

For example, a school with 7 itinerant staff would receive:
(Current Rate x 7) + (Current Rate x 2)

Current rates

Semester entitlement of $432 per itinerant staff FTE

Data requirements

Data requirements for School-based Itinerant Staff Operational Grant
Data required	Data source	Time collected
Numbers of itinerant staff	Specialist support staff collection spreadsheet	March, September

Contact

School Financial Services
Telephone: (07) 3237 0774

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