Other School Matters

Help & Advice

• Staffing & Appointments
  • Staffing for 2025/2026
  • Posts of Responsibility
  • Application Forms for Teaching Posts
  • Appointment Procedures
  • Job Sharing
  • Part Time Teachers
  • Newly Qualified Teachers
  • Redeployment Panels
    • Main Panel
    • Supplementary Panel
  • Webinars
• Child Protection
  • Child Protection Procedures & Compliance
  • Child Protection – DE Circular 0036/2023
  • Child Protection – Resources & Templates for Mandatory & Optional Reporting
  • DES Resources
  • Child Protection – Children First Resources
• Leave of Absence
  • Assault Leave
  • Brief Absences
  • Career Breaks
  • Carer’s Leave
  • Parental Leave
  • Maternity / Adoptive / Paternity Leave
    • Maternity Leave
    • Adoptive Leave
    • Paternity Leave
  • Secondments
  • Sick Leave
  • Webinars
• Pay
  • Pay Scales
  • Allowances
  • Incremental Credit
  • Payment of Salary
  • Acting Up Allowance
  • Temporary Teachers & Holiday Pay
  • Substitute Teachers
  • Supervision Payment
  • Taxation and PRSI
    • Income Tax & PAYE
    • Tax Credits
    • Pay Related Social Insurance (PRSI)
    • PRSI Contribution Categories
    • Widow’s or Widower’s (Contributory) Pension
• Pensions & Retirement
  • Pensions
    • Single Public Service Scheme
    • Old Entrant Scheme/National Teachers Pension
    • New Entrant Pension Scheme
    • Spouses and Children’s Pension
    • Pay Related Social Insurance (PRSI) contributions and pension benefits
    • Increasing your pension pot and financial planning
    • Further information
  • Retirement
    • Retirement Planning Seminars
    • How to fill in your RET1 form
    • Resignation
    • Disability/Ill-Health Retirement
    • Death in Service
    • Working in Retirement and Abatement
    • Retired Teachers’ Association of Ireland
• School Leadership
  • Advice, Support and Information
  • Behaviour and Discipline
  • INTO Advice and Representation
  • INTO Principals’ and Deputy Principals’ Committee
  • INTO Principals’ and Deputy Principals’ Conference
  • INTO Principals’ and Deputy Principals’ Fora
  • INTO Principals’ Seminars
  • Recruitment and Appointment of the Principal Teacher
  • Release Time for Teaching Principals
  • Right to Disconnect – Guidance for Schools
  • Admissions to Schools
  • School Leadership Webinars
  • The Role of the Principal
• Education & Curriculum
  • Special Education
    • Summer Programme 2025
    • Special Education Symposium 2024
    • Useful Links
  • School Inspection and Evaluation of Teachers
    • Guide to Inspection in Primary Schools 2016
    • Evaluation of Schools and Teachers
    • Evaluation of Teachers
    • Inspectorate Code of Practice
    • Section 13 (9) Appeals Procedure
    • School Self-Evaluation
  • Education Committee
  • Education Conference
• Social Inclusion
  • Educational Disadvantage
    • DEIS
    • Home School Community Liaison Scheme
    • Disadvantage Reports and Resources
  • Language Support
    • Language Reports and Resources
    • Archive
  • Intercultural Education
• Staff & Parent Relations
  • Working Together
  • Good Practice
  • Mediation
  • EAS/Counselling
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Working Together – Adult Bullying
  • Teachers and Court Cases
  • Parental Complaints – INTO/Management Complaints Procedure
  • Home School Community Liaison Scheme
• Teacher Registration
  • The Teaching Council
  • Droichead
  • Garda Vetting
• Other School Matters
  • Administration of Medicine
  • Croke Park Hours
  • Directives
  • Data Protection and GDPR
  • Lunchtime Supervision
  • School Accommodation
    • General information on school accommodation
    • Planning a school project
    • Funding
    • School design
  • School Year
    • Exceptional Closings
    • Closing for Elections
    • Closing in the Interests of Public Health
    • School Tours
    • Length of School Day
    • Standardisation of School Year
    • INTO School Year Planner 2025/26
• Equality
  • Books on Equality, Inclusion and Diversity
  • Equality Committee
  • Equality Conference 2023
  • Equal Opportunities (equality legislation)
  • External Organisations
  • INTO Equality Committee
  • INTO Equality Conference
  • INTO Pride Flag Campaign 
  • LGBT+ Teachers Rights
  • Religious Ethos and Equality
  • Resources to support EID in schools
  • Taskforce on Equality, Inclusion and Diversity
  • Women’s Health
    • Menstrual and Menopausal Welfare
    • Reproductive Health Related Matters
  • Neurodivergence