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  • Taskforce on Equality, Inclusion and Diversity

    Following on from a resolution passed at Congress 2022, the INTO established a taskforce to progress matters in Equality, Inclusion and Diversity (EID). The priorities arising from the taskforce will...

  • External Organisations

    The INTO is represented on, and collaborates with, a broad range of external bodies that work to progress EID. INTO officials and representatives use their engagement on these groups as...

  • 2025 Home-Based Summer Programme

    A home-based summer programme is available for children with complex special educational needs where their schools are not providing a school-based programme. The allocation of hours is 10 per week...

  • Job share and career break webinar

    Job share and career break webinar, 14 January 2025 To keep reading, please join us or log in....

  • Spouses and Children’s Pension

    The Spouses and Children’s Pension Scheme provides for an income for your spouse and/or children should you predecease them. To keep reading, please join us or log in....

  • Webinars

    Job share and career break webinar, 14 January 2025 To keep reading, please join us or log in....

  • Menstrual and Menopausal Welfare

    Ireland’s largest trade unions have called for employers and the Government to implement mandatory workplace menstrual and menopausal policies. To keep reading, please join us or log in....

  • INTO Principals’ and Deputy Principals’ Conference

  • Pensions and Retirement

    It’s never too early to start thinking about your pension and planning for your retirement. This applies to all teachers no matter what stage of their career they are at....

  • Pensions

    A pension provides for an income in retirement. Throughout your teaching career you are making contributions to a pension scheme and building up an entitlement to a pension. When you...

  • Retirement

    It’s never too early to start thinking about your pension and planning for your retirement. This applies to all teachers no matter what stage of their career they are at....

  • Single Public Service Pension Scheme

    Teachers who began work on or after 1 January 2013 are members of the Single Public Service Pension Scheme. This scheme, across the public service, bases pensions on career average...

  • Old Entrant Scheme/National Teachers Pension

    This page only relates to the Old Entrant pension scheme, which applies to teachers in service prior to 31 March 2004 who have not had a 26-week break in service...

  • New Entrant Pension Scheme

    This page only relates to the New Entrant pension scheme, which applies to teachers who entered service from 1 April 2004 and prior to 1 January 2013, or who returned...

  • Home School Community Liaison Scheme

    Home School Community Liaison (HSCL) is a major, mainstream, preventative strategy targeted at pupils at risk of not reaching their potential in the educational system because of background characteristics which...

  • Religious Ethos and Equality

    Many teachers who do not practice or share the religious ethos of their school patron express concerns regarding discrimination given their non-belief or the non-congruence of their personal lives with...

  • Allowances

    For teachers who entered service prior to 1 January 2011, a separate qualification allowance is paid in addition to their scale salary. To keep reading, please join us or log...

  • Teacher Registration

    The Teaching Council Droichead Garda Vetting...

  • The Teaching Council

    It a requirement for teachers to register with the Teaching Council in order to be paid salary by the State. To keep reading, please join us or log in....

  • Education & Curriculum

    Supporting Pupils from Ukraine Special Education Reports and Resources School Inspection and Evaluation of Teachers Education Conference Education Committee...