A teacher who has given at least 5 years of pensionable service, and who can satisfy the Department of Education and Skills that owing to disability of mind or body, they are permanently incapacitated from carrying on work as a teacher, may be awarded a Disability Pension and Lump sum. (Teachers with less than 5 years pensionable service, who by reason of ill-health are unable to continue teaching may be awarded a once off Disablement Gratuity).
Disability / Ill Health Retirement
Help & Advice
- Taskforce on Equality, Inclusion and Diversity
- Staffing & Appointments
- Child Protection
- Leave of Absence
- Pay
- Pensions & Retirement
- INTO Guide to Pensions
- Pension – Old Entrant Pension Scheme
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- Retirement Planning
- Disability / Ill Health Retirement
- Resignation
- Death in Service / Retirement
- Transferring of Superannuation/Pension Rights
- Service Abroad and Incremental Credit
- Retired Teachers’ Association
- Additional Superannuation Contribution (ASC)
- Spouses’ and Children’s Pension Scheme
- Augmenting UK State Pension entitlement
- School Leadership
- Right to Disconnect – Guidance for Schools
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- Behaviour and Discipline
- INTO Advice and Representation
- INTO Principals’ Seminars
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- The Role of the Principal
- Release Time for Teaching Principals
- Education & Curriculum
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- Equality
- Books on Equality, Inclusion and Diversity
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- Equality Conference 2023
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- External Organisations
- INTO Equality Committee
- INTO Equality Conference
- INTO Pride Flag Campaign
- LGBT+ Teachers Rights
- Religious Ethos and Equality
- Reproductive Health Related Matters
- Resources to support EID in schools