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Want to become an EFL advisor to primaries in my area.

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Doowrah · 28/09/2015 19:20

I have the skills and experience and have googled all over the shop trying to track these jobs down and can't find any leads that I can pursue. Does anyone know how I go about this?

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toomuchicecream · 28/09/2015 21:58

Think it's one of those roles that disappeared round about 2010 when the Government changes and squeezed local authority budgets.

The LA I was working in had an EAL advisor who became self employed - she still came into our school afterwards, but I think the school had to pay separately for her services. My current LA had a whole METAS department (Minority Ethnic & Traveller Advisory Service???) which was disbanded and the staff either redeployed or made redundant.

Unfortunately, in the current climates of static school budgets alongside ever increasing costs, I rather suspect there aren't many schools which would decide to buy in a new EAL advisor. They'll either have someone they're working with already, or just won't have the budget to take on someone new. (That's working on the reasonable assumption that schools with a high level of EAL tend to have had a high level of EAL for quite some time and so established systems in place, and schools which only have a few EAL pupils will somehow provide for them from the staff they already have.)

If you have a local school/schools with a high level of EAL, you could try talking to them about what they currently do and any support they would find useful in the future - that might give you a starting point.