REPORT 2010 - Telethon Speech and Hearing

Telethon Speech + Hearing 2010 Annual Report
School Performance
Information
This is Telethon Speech & Hearing’s Executive Report
on School Performance Information Measures for 2010.
This report is a requirement of all schools receiving
Federal Government funding under the Schools
Assistance Act 2004. The information must be made
available in different forms. As well as our 2010 Annual
Report, this information can be found on our website
(www.tsh.org.au) and as a pamphlet at the Centre’s
reception area.
TSH is a “special school”, primarily for children with
special needs. The reporting requirements for such
schools are as follows:
• Staff Attendance
• Staff Retention
• Teacher Qualifications
• Staff PD Expenditure and Teacher Participation
• Post-school destinations for children leaving
the Centre
This report covers all these areas except for the
post-school destinations. Only a very small number of
students exit the Centre at Year 12 and reporting on this
indicator may compromise client confidentiality. This year
we also provide information about parent satisfaction.
1. Reporting measure: Staff Attendance
defined as “the average attendance rate or average
number of days attended per staff member”
Staff attendance at Telethon Speech & Hearing in 2010
was consistent with previous years. The Centre, due to
the specialised nature of its work, has to make special
efforts to attract and retain high quality relief teachers.
Because of difficulties experienced in previous years in
securing suitable relief staff a policy change saw more staff
absences covered by in-house staff in 2010. For program
staff the average attendance rate in 2010 was 96%.
2. Reporting measure: Staff Retention
defined as “the proportion of teaching staff retained
in a program year from the previous year”
In 2010 Telethon Speech & Hearing saw 1.9 FTE of
the 54.1 FTE total staff leave who were employed in
the previous school year, a retention rate of 96.5%. In
the previous report the retention rate was 94.7%. This
figure includes one staff member (0.8 FTE) who retired
and therefore was not hoping to be retained. It does not
include staff members who took maternity leave.
The reporting measure specifically refers to teaching staff
in Australian Government-funded programs. No teaching
staff left, therefore this retention rate was 100%.
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