IPPN

Published: 09 March 2017

This E-scéal contains useful information on the following;

• Planning Prompts
• Deputy Principals' Conference - Health Screening
• IPPN called to present at Joint Oireachtas Committee
• What's New

Planning Prompts

A number of issues regarding supervision and duty of care have recently arisen in schools. Determining acceptable levels of supervision and defining the school’s duty of care is one issue that exercises the minds of many Boards of Management and principals. While there is no prescriptive answer provided by the DES, the liability of the BoM is predominantly based on judicial decisions and precedence in previous cases.

IPPN Deputy Principals' Conference 2017 - Health Screening


In its continuing commitment to member welfare and wellbeing, IPPN will be providing complimentary ‘Health Screening’ on Friday, March 24th at our Deputy Principals Conference 2017. Online booking of appointments will only be available to those who have signed up to the Deputy Principals Conference. Appointments will be limited as each health check appointment will take 15-20 minutes. Click below to check out what the Health Check will include. Click Here

IPPN called to present at Joint Oireachtas Committee

On Tuesday 7th March, Maria Doyle, Seán Cottrell and David Ruddy presented on the topic of the proposed Education Amendment Bill 2015 regarding an Ombudsman for Education and also the General Scheme of an Education (Parent & Student Charter) Bill 2016. Read More....


What's New

Special Education Teaching Allocation
Circular 0013/2017- Mainstream Primary Schools Special Education Teaching Allocation

*Allocations Circular 17/2017 will be available on the Department website later today, Thursday 9th March.
Queries relating to the new SPED Model should in the first instance be directed to the NCSE*

Action Plan on School-Age Childcare
Funding of €3m is being made available to support the provision of services aimed at school-going children. Read More

Public Lecture Series 2017 - Understanding Mental Health
Lecture by Dr. Rosaleen McElvaney - Talking with Children about difficult Topics.
15th March 7-8pm - Free Entry
Venue: School of Nursing and Human Sciences, DCU