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Part-time staff: attending INSET days and meetings

Understand guidance around a part-time staff member attending meetings, including parents' evening and training events such as INSET days. See the terms for teachers and support staff, and read union advice.

Last reviewed on 21 May 2025See updates
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Contents
  1. Teachers employed under the STPCD
  2. Teachers not employed under the STPCD
  3. Support staff
  4. Pro-rata meeting requirements for part-time staff

Teachers employed under the STPCD

The School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD) sets out the terms of employment for certain teachers.

Days when the teacher usually works

You can ask part-time teachers to do work that is "beyond that specified in the school's timetabled teaching week", as long as it's within their allocated directed time, and on a day they usually work.

However, they should not have more directed time allocated outside their normal sessions than full-time teachers do.

Read more on page 87 of the STPCD. 

When you arrange meetings or other activities outside of school sessions, try not to put part-time teachers on directed time either side of a period when they’re not expected to be available to work.

Find out more about directed time and how to organise it.

Part-time teachers can't be required to work on, or attend non-pupil days