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This Declaration is a joint Management Side and Teachers’ Side agreement which recognises the moral and legal duties placed on Employers and Trade Unions as a result of fair employment legislation, anti-discrimination law and the Section 75 Statutory Equality Duty.

The aim of this policy is to communicate the commitment to the promotion of equality of opportunity, fair participation, and good relations.

Letter to Schools - RSE - May 2023

Letter to Schools - RSE - June 2023

Guidance on the method of calculation of additional days and hours for part time teachers to be implemented from 1 July 2023

RSM (2023) DE Review of Childcare Services in NI - Final Report

The purpose of these statistical bulletins is to provide analysis of the latest annual collections relating to teacher number, teacher vacancies and Pupil: Teacher ratios in grant-aided schools in 2022/23.

The law about bullying in schools has changed. The Addressing Bullying in Schools Act (NI) 2016, was introduced on 01 September 2021. Find out what these changes mean for you.

Equality and Human Rights Policy Screening for Discontinuation of the Healthy Happy Minds pilot counselling and therapeutic support programme

Period Dignity 2021/2022

Guidance on School Development Days in 2023/2024

Equality and Human Rights Policy Screening for Discontinuation of the Engage III programme at the end of the 2022/23 financial year

Equality and Human Rights Policy Screening For 2023/24 Resource Budget

The purpose of this guidance is to provide clarification to Boards of Governors and schools in relation to the requirements of school development planning for 2023/24.  The guidance will be kept under review.

Of staff employed by outsourced companies providing services for the Department for Education– how many are employed on ‘zero hours’ or ‘casual’ contracts?

Please provide a breakdown by job title

1. Does the Department of Education have a statutory duty to fund and support the Independent Counselling Service for Schools?
2. An overview of the services that the Department has a statutory duty to fund and deliver.

I am researching school closures in the North Belfast and Newtownabbey areas from 1970's to present. You may have information already published but I was unable to locate this.

Please provide a list of any and all contact your organisation and/or staff have had with British American Tobacco, Imperial Brands, Japan Tobacco International, Philip Morris International, as well as any other domestic or transnational tobacco companies or anyone representin

The Childcare Sustainability Support Fund during the Covid period.  This fund was in partnership with the Department of Education and Department for Health. 

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Information relating to a report that the then Minister for Education commissioned into Education Authority funding for Voluntary and Statutory Youth Work in the summer of 2021