Jargon buster

An alphabetical list of some abbreviations and acronyms you may come across. If you come across any that are not listed here, email EGfLWebTeam@ealing.gov.uk.

A
AAT: Achievement and attainment tables
ACE: Advisory Centre for Education (an advisory service for parents) - www.ace-ed.org.uk
ACPC: Area child protection committee
AD: Assistant Director
AFL: Assessment for learning
AHT: Assistant Headteacher
ALG: Association of London Government
ALI: Adult learning inspectorate
ALIS+:A-level information system
ALS: Additional literacy support
ALPS: Advanced levels performance systems
AMP: Asset management plan
APA: Annual performance assessment - the new children's services annual self-assessment
APP: Assessing pupils' progress
ASB: Aggregated schools budget - This was a term associated with the LMS scheme (now superceded by Fair Funding)
ASCL: Association of School and College Leaders
ASPECT: Association of Professionals in Education and Children's Trust
ASE: Association for science education
AST: Advanced skills teacher
AT: Attainment target
ATL: Association of Teachers and Lecturers
AWPU: Age weighted pupil unit - Term used in Fair Funding for schools; the sum of money allocated to a school for each pupil according to age. This is the main source of funding to a school.

B
BAECE: British Association for Early Childhood Education
BECTA: British Educational Communications and Technology Agency - www.becta.org.uk
BEST: Behaviour and Education Support Team
BIP: Behaviour improvement programme
BSA: Basic skills agency
BSF: Building Schools for the Future
BSP: Behaviour support plan
BST: Behaviour support team
BTCV: British Trust for Conservation Volunteers
BTEC: Business and Technology Education Council

C
CAD: Computer aided design
CAF: Common Assessment Framework
CAL: Computer aided learning
CAMHS: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service
CASE: Campaign for State Education - CASE is an organisation that believes in an education system that is fair to all children, young people and their parents and which has the resources to provide excellent quality
CATs: Cognitive ability tests - CATs measure a student’s ability to reason with and manipulate different types of symbols important in thinking processes.
CDT: Craft design and technology
CEA: Cambridge Education Associates - www.camb-ed.com
CEDP: Career entry and development profile
CfBT: Centre for British Teachers - CfBT Education Trust is an education consultancy and service organisation.
CFR: Consistent financial reporting
C&G: City and Guilds
CIPD: Chartered Institute of Professional Development - Mentioned in the model performance management procedure for support staff in schools; which forms part of the schools personnel handbook.
CITAS: Community interpreting, translation and access service
CLC: City Learning Centres
CLLD: Communication language and literacy development
CME: Children missing in education
COGS: Co-ordinators of Governor services
COSHH: Control of substances hazardous to health regulations 1988
CP: Child protection
CPC: Children in public care
CPD: Continuing professional development
CPS: Common pay spine
CPT: Child protection team
CRB: Criminal Records Bureau
CRE: Commission for Racial Equality
CSBM: Certificate of school business management
CS and LL: Children's Services and Lifelong Learning
CTC: City Technology College
CVA: Contextual value added
CwD: Children with Disabilities - this now comes under the Ealing Service for Children with Additional Needs (ESCAN)
CYPP: Children and Young People's Plan

D
DAP: Director's advisory panel
DCAP: Department of child and adult psychiatry
DAWN: Dignity at Work Now
DCSF: Department for Children, Schools and Families
DDA: Disability Discrimination Act
DED: Disability Equality Duty
DEFRA: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
DH: Department of Health
DHT: Deputy Headteacher
DL: Distance learning
DMT: Local Authority Department Management Team
D of E: Duke of Edinburgh's award scheme
DoE: Department of Environment - now known as DEFRA
DRB: Designated Recommending Bodies - schools, LAs and accredited teacher training providers that create and convey teacher training courses to individuals wishing to achieve Qualified Teacher Status
DSBM: Diploma of school business management
DSG: Dedicated schools grant
DSO: Direct service organisation
DT: Distance travelled

E
EAL: English as an additional language
EAZ: Education action zone
EBD: Emotional and behavioural difficulties
ECAR: Every Child A Reader
ECAT: Every Child A Talker
EDC: Extended day care
EEBP: Ealing Education Business Partnership
EFQM: European Foundation for Quality Management
EGfL: Ealing Grid for Learning
EHRC: Equality and human rights commission
EiC: Excellence in Cities
EIP: Education improvement partnership
EIS: Educational Institute of Scotland
EIT: Early intervention team
ELS: Early literacy support
EMA: Ethnic minority achievement
EMAG: Ethnic minority achievement grant
EMCG: Ethnic minority consultative group
EMS: Education management system
EOTAS: Education other than at school
EPAS: Education performance analysis software
EPD: Early professional development
EP: Educational psychologist
EPS: Educational psychology service
ERA: Education reform act
ERSA: Ealing's request for statutory assessment
ESCAN: Ealing Service for Children with Additional Needs
ESR: Educators for social responsibility
ESS: Education Standard Spending - This is the level of spending that the government considers appropriate for authorities collectively to spend on education in order to provide a standard level of service.
ESW: Education social worker
EUMC: European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia
EWE: European work experience
EWO: Education welfare officer
EWS: Education welfare service
EYDCP: Early years development and childcare partnership
EYFS: Early years foundation stage
EY: Early years

F
FaCT: Family and community team
FAIR: Forum Against Islamaphobia and Racism
FE: Further education
FF: Fair funding
FFT: Fischer Family Trust
FLARE: Forum for Learning and Research Enquiry was established by Essex LA to foster a culture of research practice in schools.
FMSIS: Financial management standard in schools
FOI: Freedom of information
FSM: Free school meals
FS: Foundation stage
FTBI: First Time Buyers Initiative
FTE: Full-time equivalent - term used in calculating the number of pupils (where a part-time pupil counts as one half), usually for budget allocation.

G
GB: Governing body
G and T: Gifted and talented
GCSE: General certificate of secondary education
GOL: Government Office for London
GNVQ: General national vocational qualification - work-related, competence-based qualifications.
GT(P): Graduate Teacher (Programme)
GTC: General Teaching Council

H
H&S: Health and safety
HEADLAMP: Headteacher Leadership and Management Programme - for new heads; now replaced by the Headteacher Induction Programme
HEI: Higher education institution
HIP: Headteacher Induction Programme - one of the leadership programmes provided by the NCSL that aims to support new first-time headteachers in identifying and addressing their personal and professional development needs. It has superceded the HEADLAMP programme.
HLTA: Higher level teaching assistant
HMCI: Her Majesty's Chief Inspector
HMI: Her Majesty's Inspectorate
HoD: Head(s) of department
HSE: Health and Safety Executive - protects people against risks to health or safety arising out of work activities.
HTI: Heads, Teachers and Industry

I
IAM: Institute of Administrative Management
ICT: Information and Communications Technology
IEP: Individual education plan - builds on the curriculum that a child with learning difficulties or disabilities is following, and is designed to set out the strategies being used to meet each child's identified needs.
IiP: Investors in People
ILP: Individual learning plan - form a 'route map' of how a learner will get from their starting point on a learning journey to the desired end point.
INSET: In-service education of teachers
IOE: Institute of Education
IOSH: Institute of Occupational Safety and Health
IPDP: Individual professional development plans
ISB: Individual schools budget - the amount that the LA divides between the schools and is maintained in the form of budget shares for each school.
ISCWD: Integrated Services for Children with Disabilities - now known as the Ealing Service for Children with Additional Needs (ESCAN)
IT: Information technology
ITET: Initial teacher education and training
ITT: Initial Teacher Training

J
JAR: Joint area review

K
KS1 (2, 3, 4): Key stage 1 (2, 3, 4)

L
LA: Local authority - supercedes the term LEA (now obsolete in official use since the implementation of the Children's Act 2004)
LAT: Learner achievement tracker
LftM: 'Leading from the Middle' - a blended-learning programme. Learning takes place through a combination of face-to-face sessions, online activities and school-based activity.
LiG: Leadership Incentive Grant - began in April 2003 and was a three year pump-priming initiative designed to raise standards, strengthen leadership and stimulate collaboration among communities of schools to improve teaching and learning - discontinued in March 2006.
LMS: Local Management of Schools - the system for allocating funds to primary and secondary schools introduced in 1990. In 1999, it was superceded by the Fair Funding system.
LMSS: Local Management of Special Schools - the system for allocating funds to Special schools introduced in 1990. In 1999, it was superceded by the Fair Funding system.
LPSH: Leadership Programme for Serving Headteachers - A programme for heads established in the role and looking to develop their professional qualities, skills and expertise further. Now replaced by the 'Head for the Future' programme.
LSA: Learning support assistant
LSEA: London Schools Environment Awards
LSC: Learning and Skills Council
LSN: Learning and Skills Network
LSU: Learning support units

M
MCB: Muslim Council of Britain
MET: Muslim Educational Trust
MFL: Modern foreign languages
MPS: Metropolitan Police Service

N
NAGM: National Association of Governors and Managers
NAGTY: National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth
NAHT: National Association of Headteachers
NAPTA: National Association of Professional Teaching Assistants
NARIC: National Academic Recognition Information Centre
NASUWT: National Association of School Masters & Union of Women Teachers
NBA: National Bursars Assocation
NC: National Curriculum
NCER: National Consortium for Examination Results
NCSL: National College for School Leadership
NCT: Non-contact time - not scheduled for working with pupils.
NERF: National Education Research Forum
NFER: National Foundation for Educational Research
NLC: Networked Learning Community - a partnership of schools networking to improve learning opportunities for all.
NPQH: National Professional Qualification for Headship
NPSLBA: National Programme for Specialist Leaders in Behaviour and Attendance.
NQT: Newly qualified teacher
NRA: National Record of Achievement - has now been phased out.
NUT: National Union of Teachers
NVQ: National vocational qualification

O
Ofsted: Office for Standards in Education
OMHB: Open Market HomeBuy - a low-cost government-backed home-ownership programme that aims to help people to secure 100% funding of the value of their first home.
OSHLI: Out-of-School-Hours Learning Initiative - funded through the Big Lottery fund.
OTT: Overseas Trained Teacher

P
PANN: Professional Association of Nursery Nurses
PAtT: Professionals Allied to Teaching
PAT: Professional Association of Headteachers
PAT: Pupil achievement tracker
PBS: Primary behaviour service
PCT: Primary Care Trust - the care provided by people you normally see when you first have a health problem. It might be a visit to a doctor or a dentist, an optician for an eye test, or just a trip to a pharmacist to buy cough mixture. NHS walk-in centres and the NHS Direct phone line service are also part of primary care. All of these services are managed for you by your local PCT who will work with local authorities and other agencies that provide health and social care locally to make sure that your local community's needs are being met.
PDC: Professional development centre
PDP: Professional development profile
PEP: Personal education plans
PESSCL: PE, school sport and club links
PFI: Private Finance Initiative
PGCE: Postgraduate Certificate of Education
PLASC: Pupil level annual school census
PPA: Preparation, planning and assessment
PPP: Public Private Partnerships
PPP: Pupil Parent Partnership
PSHEE: Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education
PSLN: Primary School Learning Network
PTR: Pupil teacher ratio - calculated by taking the full-time equivalent number of all pupils and dividing it by the number of FTE teachers employed (calculated by looking at the number of hours worked by teachers).

Q
QCA: Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
QTS: Qualified teacher status

R
RB: Recommending body
RE: Religious education
RES: Race Equality Scheme
RIMA: Race in the media
ROA: Record of Achievement

S
SACRE: Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education
SAI: Schools Access Initiative
SALTS: School and Local Authority Target Setting
SATs: Standard Assessment Tasks
SBCR: Schools budgetary control report
SCITT: School-centred initial teacher training
SDP: School development plan
SEAL: Social Emotional Aspects Learning
SEN: Special Educational Needs
SENCO: Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator
SENCOP: Special Educational Needs Code Of Practice
SENDA: Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001
SENDIST: Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal
SENJIT: Special Educational Needs Joint Initiative for Training
SEU: Standards and Effectiveness Unit
SEU: Social Exclusion Unit
SGU: School Governance Unit
SHA: Secondary Heads Association
SIMS: Schools Information Management System
SIP: School improvement partner
SIP: School improvement plan
SLA: Service level agreement
SMT: Senior management team
SNA: Special needs assistant
SOC: School organisation committee
SOP: School organisation plan
SSC: Sector Skills Council
SSCO: School sport co-ordinators
SSDA: Sector Skills Development Agency
SSP: School sports partnerships
STA: Specialist teaching assistant
STRB: School Teacher Review Body
SWOT: Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats

T
TA: Teaching Assistant
TAS: Traveller Achievement Service
TDA: Test of developed ability
TDA: Training and Development Agency
TDLB: Training and development lead body
TES: Times Educational Supplement
TESS: The Extended Schools Support service
TIPD: Teachers' international professional development
TPLF: Teachers' professional learning framework
TSN: Teacher Support Network
TTA: Teacher Training Agency

U
UCAS: University and College Admissions Service
UPN: Unique pupil number

V
VA: Voluntary aided
VRH: Volunteer reading help
VRQ: Vocationally related qualification

W
WAMG: Workforce Agreement Monitoring Group