Deadline for submission of applications for LITH and access to SNA support
- Published: 04 February 2016
29 February 2016 - Deadline for submission of applications for LITH and access to SNA support. The date has been brought forward to ensure that allocations will issue to schools before the end of the current school year.
NCSE Update – Applications for LITH and access to SNA support
NCSE and NEPS are currently discussing the possibility of your SENO accepting a shorter report where a psychologist has already carried out the assessment, and feels a pupil will qualify for resources, but may not have a full report available to schools before the deadline date of Monday 29 February. This would be on the understanding that all documentation and full reports would be with your SENO before a determination is needed to be made in May. This would allow the pupil to be included in the first round of applications. If you find this is the case in your school, then please have a conversation with your SENO &/or Psychologist.
Filling Short-Term Substitute Teaching Vacancies
- Published: 04 February 2016
A number of calls have been received to the National Support Office regarding the difficulty in sourcing fully qualified primary school teachers to fill short-term substitute teaching positions. DES Circular 31/2011, Section 4 provides guidance to schools on the options that are available to them to fill these vacancies. These include:
- Schools must first seek to employ a fully qualified registered teacher who is not retired (Using TextaSub & school’s own substitute list)
- Having exhausted all means to appoint a fully qualified registered teacher, a school may employ a retired teacher
- Where no appropriately qualified registered teacher is available, the school may employ a teacher registered under any regulation of the Teaching Council [Registration] Regulations 2009
HLL
- Published: 18 January 2016
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Staffing Schedule for 2016/2017
- Published: 15 October 2015
Tuesday 23 February 2016 is the key date for schools to:
- Submit completed Staffing Appeals Form to DES Primary Teacher Allocations Section for March 2016 meeting of Staffing Appeals Board
- Notify Panel Operator of any permanent or fixed-term vacancies
- Return Main Redeployment Panel Application Form for surplus permanent/CID holding teachers to the DES Primary Teacher Allocations Section
- Return CID Declaration Form, January 2016 for teachers awarded a CID in the 2015/2016 school year to the DES Primary Teacher Allocations Section
- Notify Primary Teacher Allocations Section of GAM/EAL cluster arrangements.
