Publications

This circular explains a change to the reconstitution date of some school Boards of Governors.

This scheme applies to all teachers to provide leave to care for their child or support the mother/adopter following the birth or placement for adoption (subject to eligibility), irrespective of pay or weekly working hours.

This scheme applies to all eligible teachers to provide leave to care for their child or support the mother/adopter following the birth or placement for adoption for the first 12 months the child is with the family.

This scheme applies to teachers who adopt a child from within the UK or overseas (subject to eligibility) or dual approved prospective adopters or parental order parents in a surrogacy arrangement irrespective of pay or weekly working hours.

This Teachers' Maternity Leave Scheme has been updated to reflect the rules concerning statutory and occupational maternity leave as a consequence of the relevant legislation and is the result of an agreement reached between the Management and Teachers’ Sides of the

This circular explains the arrangements for the electronic transfer of pupils’ data from the Schools’ Information Management System (SIMS) to the Child Health System from October 2015.

This circular advises school authorities about revised
Relationship and Sexuality Education guidance produced by
CCEA on behalf of the Department of Education.

This circular reminds schools of their legal duty as Data
Controllers to lawfully manage and govern the data for which
they are responsible.

This circular sets out the additional requirement and context for school to record data electronically, utilising the C2k School Information Management System, pertaining to Sure Start as part of the 2015/16 school census data collection exercise.

This circular sets out the general context for school development planning and provides benchmarking information for target setting.

This Circular provides confirmation that from 1 April 2015 the Department has conferred powers on the General Teaching Council for Northern Ireland (GTCNI) to enable it to consider cases of serious teacher misconduct and, where appropriate, to remove a teacher from its registe

Guidance on implementation of approved
development proposals for school amalgamations.
 

The purpose of this guidance is to provide advice to Principals and Boards of Governors (BoG) of educational establishments when managing an allegation of abuse against a member of staff.

This circular, issued by the Department of Education, details the 2015/16 EF support arrangements for the delivery of the Entitlement Framework.

This circular sets out guidance on induction and transition for Pre-school Education and Primary 1.

This circular is an information guide for those stakeholders interested in establishing jointly managed schools.

This circular updates information about contribution rates for members of NITPS

This circular sets out for the attention of Boards of Governors and Principals the legal position regarding the use of school premises for political events.

This circular sets out the statutory responsibilities regarding
assessment for governors, principals and teachers.

This Circular provides advice for school authorities to issue to parents about the importance of informing schools and other organisations about any concussion related injury sustained by a child.