Call for retention of supply teacher panels [IrishTimes]
- Published: 08 April 2010
SUBSTITUTE COVER: THE INTO has backed a motion which calls for the retention of supply teacher panels.
The abolition of the scheme providing a panel of supply teachers to cover sick leave for some primary schools was “shortsighted” and would affect disadvantaged schools hardest, the conference was told. The scheme was piloted in 1993 and extended and made permanent in 1998.
Its purpose was to provide substitute cover for teachers absent for up to four weeks.
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