The school workforce development board (SWDB) is the sector-wide body concerned with training and developing the wider workforce. Chaired by the TDA, the SWDB was established in the autumn of 2004 to guide the TDA’s work on training and development for support staff.
The SWDB consists of:
the Department for Education and Skills,
the Employers’ Organisation for local government,
the Learning and Skills Council,
the National College for School Leadership,
the National Strategies,
the national support staff Centre of Vocational Excellence,
Ofsted,
the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, and
the Workforce Agreement Monitoring Group (WAMG, which includes workforce unions).
The SWDB has recently published a three-year strategy for training and developing school support staff which can be found at:-
