Redeployment Panel – ISSUED
- Published: 23 March 2023
The DE has published the main redeployment panel for the 2023/2024 school year. There are currently 128 surplus permanent/CID holding teachers on panels, for redeployment to vacancies in other schools. The school led redeployment process will take place up to Friday, 28 April. A panel operator will be appointed after this date to clear panel(s). Boards of Management with permanent vacancies are now required to immediately commence the process of filling their vacancies from the list of surplus permanent/CID holding teachers on the redeployment panels. Boards are reminded that they are not permitted at this stage to follow normal recruitment procedures to fill permanent or fixed term vacancies.
Latest DE Circulars/Information Notes
- Published: 07 April 2022
Since the last E-scéal, there have been four Circulars and one Information Note issued by the DE. Some of the guidance issued by the department include a number of different topics in one circular.
Information Note SD 0004/2022 - Important Information regarding schools administration
The information note provides updated information/guidance to schools on the following topics.
- School Admission Policies
- First Aid
- Energy / Sustainability Champion in Schools
DE Circular 4/2022 - Post-Graduate Certificate/Diploma Programme of Continuing Professional Development for Teachers working with Students with Special Educational Needs (Autism)
Note:
- Sections 1 and 2 of this circular set out important information for schools regarding Standardised Testing returns in respect of the 2021/2022 academic year
- Section 3 – 13 Contains information and resources on a variety of topics
DE Circular 19/2022 - DEIS identification 2022: Appeals process for schools
DE Info Note: Updated Covid-19 Guidance to Schools following the mid-term break 2022
- Published: 23 February 2022
This note is to inform schools of the new public health advice from 28th February 2022. It is understood that schools may need time in order to make any adjustments depending on their own circumstances. It is not expected that any work will be undertaken over the mid-term break.
E-scéal 14th Oct 2021: IPPN’s response to Budget 2022
- Published: 13 October 2021
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In respect of the measures that have been announced in Budget 2022, the following details IPPN’s response.
IPPN prioritised three key areas for primary education for Budget 2022:
- the funding of supports to make primary school leadership more sustainable
- the retention of pandemic supports for schools
- adequate resourcing of supports for vulnerable children adversely impacted by the Covid pandemic.
In that context, IPPN welcomes the announcement, in yesterday’s Budget, of:
- the lowering of the pupil/teacher ratio
- additional funding to support pupils with special educational needs in terms of additional teacher and SNA posts
- administrative status being given to teaching principals of schools with two or more special classes & teaching principal of special schools
- retention of some of the Covid-19 related funding provided to schools in 2020/21.
However, IPPN is deeply disappointed to note that no commitment has been given to:
- sanctioning at least one leadership and management day per week for teaching principals on a permanent basis
- retaining teacher supply panels on a permanent basis and expanding the scheme to ensure all schools have access to a supply panel
- increasing middle leadership capacity in larger schools
- reinstating the ‘banked hours’ facility introduced in 2020/21 to allow schools who could not find a substitute teacher to avail of them when a teacher became available, thus ensuring vulnerable children did not miss out due to teacher absences.
It is recognized that effective school leadership is second only to effective classroom teaching as an influence on pupil learning. Accordingly, IPPN aspires to empower school leaders to provide dynamic leadership of their school communities resulting in inspired learners. However, this aspiration is compromised by an ongoing failure to adequately support school leadership in terms of ensuring that school leaders have the time and space to lead their schools and the requisite supports and resources to do so. This Budget is yet another missed opportunity to demonstrate an understanding of the importance of school leadership and a practical commitment to ensuring its greater sustainability. The system cannot continue to fail school leaders as such failure has serious implications for their leadership, the effectiveness of their schools and outcomes for the children in those schools.
IPPN will continue to advocate for adequate funding and supports to be made available to enable all school leaders to carry out their leadership and management roles effectively and in a sustainable way.
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Brian O'Doherty
IPPN President
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Listed below are some of the meetings, events, projects, media/PR and other advocacy-related engagements that were progressed since the start of the school year.
