From: Department of Education and Youth
Published on: 29 May 2025
Preceded by: 0080/2024
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From: Department of Education and Youth
Published on: 29 May 2025
Preceded by: 0036/2023
Please click to Download 0041/2025
From: Department of Education and Youth
Published on: 29 May 2025
Please click to Download 0042/2025
The purpose of this Circular is to advise schools of arrangements for the allocation of special needs assistant (SNA) support to mainstream classes in primary and post primary schools for the 2025/26 school year.
Post-Graduate Diploma Programme of Teacher Professional Learning for Special Education Teachers, 2025/2026
Graduate Certificate in Autism Education for Teachers Working with Autistic Pupils in Special Schools, Special Classes or as Special Education Teachers in Mainstream Primary and Post-Primary Schools, 2025/2026
Under the Occupational Injury Leave Scheme, leave with pay may be granted by the employer, to a teacher who has been certified as medically unfit for work due to a physical injury sustained as a result of an accident in the actual discharge of their duties, including approved school activities; which was not due to negligence on the part of the teacher, and by some injury solely attributable to the nature of their duty which has been established by the employer as an Occupational Injury.
This circular provides supplementary information on the Primary Online Database (POD) and the Post-Primary Online Database (PPOD) in light of the upcoming introduction of the National Equality Data Strategy, and adds to section 5 of Circular 50/2015. In short, the circular updates the categories of ethnic or cultural background that schools should capture when enrolling a pupil, and makes the capturing of such data mandatory