Flexible Working Programme - FWAMS

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The Department for Education (DfE) is inviting applications from Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) and schools to become a grant-funded Flexible Working Ambassador MAT or School (FWAMS). These FWAMS will support the delivery of the DfE’s Flexible Working Programme 2023-2025. They will: • recruit schools (‘participant schools’) and provide one-to-one coaching on implementing flexible working; • provide ad-hoc support and advice to other schools; • create practical resources; • produce awareness-raising content such as blogs and case studies, and; • work with the appointed delivery provider, who will be delivering the Department’s culture change programme. The 12 ambassador FWAMS are likely to consist of: • nine appointed on a regional basis, in line with the Regional Director regions, to offer the opportunity of support to MATs and schools across the country; • one dedicated to supporting special schools/settings. Applicants for this role must be a special school/trust. • one dedicated to supporting AP/PRU settings. Applicants for this role must be an Alternative Provision/Pupil Referral Unit; • one to support schools and MATs in areas of high disadvantage. Applicants for this role must have higher-than-average percentages of pupils eligible for the deprivation pupil premium. Applications need to be submitted by midday (1200) on 31 March 2023. If an application is successful, the applicant school will be invited to sign a grant funding agreement lasting for six academic terms. It is anticipated that the appointment of the Flexible Working Ambassador Multi-Academy Trusts and Schools will take place by the end of May 2023. Delivery will be ongoing until March 2025. Each FWAMS will receive a grant of £10,000 in the first term of operation (Summer 2023) and then £9,000 per term thereafter, to deliver the required activity. The DfE will upload a walk through recording to assist applicants in using the Jaggaer system.