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Secondments

Note: This page was updated in April 2023. To keep reading, please join us or log in....

On 1 February 2024, the Department of Education published circular 13/2024, Sick Leave Scheme for Registered Teachers Employed in Recognised Primary and Post Primary Schools, here (PDF). To keep reading,...

Paternity Leave

For comprehensive details of the paternity leave scheme refer to Chapter Four of Circular 0054/2019 (PDF), published 1 September 2019. To keep reading, please join us or log in....

INTO/Management Complaints Procedure

The INTO and Primary School Management first reached agreement in 1993 on a procedure for dealing with complaints by parents against teachers. The purpose of the procedure was to facilitate...

Active Circulars

Circular 0025/2022 Staffing arrangements in primary schools for the 2022/2023 school year April 2022 To keep reading, please join us or log in....

Disadvantage Reports and Resources

Resources for DEIS Schools: Adapting and Managing Successful Transitions webinar To keep reading, please join us or log in....

Language Reports and Resources

NE-EAL 2023/2024: Application for Language Support for New Entrant Pupils for the 2023/24 school year To keep reading, please join us or log in....

Working Together

In 2000, INTO and Management agreed a document entitled Working Together – Procedures and Policies for Positive Staff Relations (download available below). The three procedures agreed are also outlined on...

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 within the school...

Procedure to Address Staff Difficulties

It is open to an individual teacher/group of teachers/entire staff to raise the matter of internal working relations in the school, particularly, where staff relations difficulties exist. To keep reading,...

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. To...

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...