Special education staffing ORS resourcing
Boards receive staffing for students with special education needs through the Ongoing Resourcing Scheme (ORS).
Students in the ORS scheme are verified as having high or very high ongoing special education needs, or have entered under the ORS extension programme during 2010.
ORS students, as ‘regular students’, generate curriculum and management time allowances, and salary units. They also generate additional ORS staffing as outlined below.
ORS staffing
ORS students verified as having high, extension or very high
ongoing special education needs will generate the following
staffing entitlements for the period they are enrolled at the
school:
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Level of need
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Staffing entitlement
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High
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0.10 FTTE
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Extension
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0.10 FTTE
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Very High
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0.20 FTTE
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ORS management staffing
The management staffing generated by ORS staffing is calculated
and identified separately as ORS management staffing on staffing
notices using the formula:
The result is rounded to two decimal places
ORS salary units
The formula used for the generation of ORS salary units is:
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School type
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Formula
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Primary, Intermediate, Special
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(ORS Staffing + ORS Management Staffing) x 1.28
Rounded to nearest whole number
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Composite, Restricted Composite
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(ORS Staffing + ORS Management Staffing) x 1.33
Rounded to nearest whole number
|
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Secondary
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(ORS Staffing + ORS Management Staffing) x 1.2
Rounded to nearest whole number
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Reductions in ORS staffing
When an ORS student leaves a school, ORS staffing will reduce.
This reduction will apply retrospectively from the beginning of
the pay period following the date at which the student is
registered in the Ministry’s ORS database as having left the
school. ORS generated salary units might also be affected.
Managing ORS staffing reductions
Boards are expected to manage ORS staffing reductions using their
existing resources and staffing flexibilities. Where a board
believes that this is not achievable, an application may be made
to the Resourcing Division for additional staffing resource to
support legitimate employment commitments made by the board
Requests for additional staffing resources
In assessing requests for additional staffing support, the
Ministry considers:
- the appointment process the board used when establishing the
tenure of the teacher(s) whose employment is sustained using the
ORS resource. This process must have included consideration of
the continuity of ORS enrolments and their likelihood of
remaining enrolled at the school
- the environmental scan assessed by the board when
making any appointment within the past year
- the current tenure of all teachers employed by the board.
Where a board can show that the ORS staffing about to be reduced
has been used to resource a permanent or fixed term position, and
the Ministry’s assessment using the criteria above substantiates
that this was a reasonable decision on the part of the board, the
following additional staffing will be provided to maintain the
position
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Tenure of position
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Support will be provided...
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Permanent full-time
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up to the end of the school year (as necessary)
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Permanent part-time
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until the end of the notice period required in the relevant
Collective Agreement, or any lesser period by the board and
the teacher.
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Fixed-term
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the lesser of:
- the end of the appointment term
- the end of the notice period required in the relevant
Collective Agreement, or any lesser period agreed by the
board and the teacher.
Note: The latest date the Ministry
will consider the notice period beginning from is the date
the ORS student leaves the school.
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ORS surplus staffing
If at the end of the school year reductions in ORS staffing are
unable to be managed without the disestablishment of a permanent
position, the Ministry will consider, on a case by case basis,
the payment of the surplus staffing provisions of the appropriate
teachers’ collective agreement for the teacher whose permanent
employment had been resourced from ORS staffing
Requests for ORS surplus staffing
In assessing each case the Ministry will consider:
- the appointment process the board used when establishing the
tenure of the teacher(s) whose employment was sustained using the
ORS resource. This process must have included consideration of
the continuity of ORS enrolments and their likelihood of
remaining enrolled at the school
- the environmental scan assessed by the board when
making any appointment within the past year
- the current tenure of all teachers employed by the board.
Staffing roll change request
The staffing roll change request form for ORS is available from
the
Resourcing Forms page.
Send completed forms to:
Resourcing Division
PO Box 1666
Wellington
Fax 04 463 8374
Phone 04 463 8383
Email resourcing@minedu.govt.nz