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Sick Leave
Note: The following information was updated in May 2023. For comprehensive details of the sick leave scheme, refer to Chapter One of circular 0054/2019, published 1 September 2019. InTouch October...
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Paternity Leave
For comprehensive details of the paternity leave scheme refer to Chapter Four of Circular 0054/2019 (PDF), published 1 September 2019. Permanent, CID-holding, fixed-term, and non-casual substitute teachers whose spouse or...
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INTO/Management Complaints Procedure
The below-existing procedure remains in effect up to the 31 December 2023. From 1 January 2024, a revised version of this procedure comes into effect, which can be accessed here....
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Active Circulars
Active Circulars Circular 0025/2022 Staffing arrangements in primary schools for the 2022/2023 school year April 2022 Circular 0020/2022 Special Education Teaching Allocation 2022/2023 April 2022 Circular 0003/2022 Post-Graduate Diploma Programme...
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Disadvantage Reports and Resources
Resources for DEIS Schools: Adapting and Managing Successful Transitions webinar Adapting and Managing Transitions in the DEIS context A More Integrated and Effective Delivery of School-Based Educational Inclusion Measures (PDF)...
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Archive
Archived December 2011 Language Support Posts 2011/12 Applications for support for the year 2011/2012 are to be made on the Form EAL 1/1112 . This form is also available on...
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Language Reports and Resources
NE-EAL 2023/2024: Application for Language Support for New Entrant Pupils for the 2023/24 school year Supporting Children’s Mother Tongue in our Schools (PDF) Author: Julie O’Connell InTouch Issue: December 2012...
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Archive
Archived December 2011 Language Support Posts 2011/12 Applications for support for the year 2011/2012 are to be made on the Form EAL 1/1112 . This form is also available on...
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Working Together
Working Together: Procedures and Policies for Positive Staff Relations (2000) In 2000, INTO and Management agreed a document entitled Working Together – Procedures and Policies for Positive Staff Relations (download...
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Good Practice
Recommended Good Practice INTO and management have identified the following key practices as being very important in the promotion of positive working relations. The presence or absence of these practices...
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Procedure to Address Staff Difficulties
Stage 1: Informally address matters between the parties It is open to an individual teacher/group of teachers/entire staff to raise the matter of internal working relations in the school, particularly,...
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Sexual Harassment
The Employment Equality Act (1998 – 2011) explicitly provides that sexual harassment and other harassment on legally defined discriminatory grounds is unlawful and constitutes discrimination, contrary to the legislation. Employers...
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Adult Bullying
There is currently no uniform definition of workplace bullying available. The INTO policy document Staff Relations: a Report on Adult Bullying in Schools (PDF) relies on the definition that bullying...
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Augmenting UK State Pension entitlement
Frequently asked questions Have you worked in the UK as teacher or in another sector/job? If so, under a limited extension scheme workers with a UK state pension entitlement can...