Publications

This circular provides initial advice and guidance to schools on supporting remote learning on the basis of what schools have reported over the first period of remote learning.

Duties in Relation to Special Educational Needs

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 2020/21, in the context of the Covid-19 outbreak.  The guidance will be kept under review.

Education Restart Programme - Letter from the Education Minister - 3 June 2020

Extended Schools Funding Allocations in light of Covid 19 Pandemic

Criteria to be used in the lending of digital devices to pupils during the Covid19

The Department of Education wishes to inform you that it has made the attached Notice which makes modifications to Article 58(1)(a) of the Education and Libraries (NI) Order 1986 and comes into operation on 23 May 2020.

This new page contains the 2020-21 CFF Budget Allocations which is linked to the Common Funding Page.

Oral statement to the Ad Hoc Committee on the Covid-19 response by Peter Weir, MLA, Minister of Education -21 May 2020

This guidance provides clarification to schools about the requirements for pupil reporting during the current circumstances. The guidance will be kept under review.

The Department has established an independent Exceptional Circumstances Body (ECB) to consider applications from parents where it is claimed that a child must attend a specified post-primary school, and no other post-primary school, for exceptional reasons.

Duties in Relation to Special Educational Needs

The purpose of this statistical bulletin is to provide results of the annual data collection relating to the uptake of school meals in Northern Ireland schools in 2019/20.

The attached determination gives effect in law to an increase of 2.25% in salary rates from 1 September 2017

The attached determination gives effect in law to an increase of 2% in salary rates from 1 September 2018

At a meeting of the Teachers’ Negotiating Committee on Tuesday 28 April 2020, Management Side and the Northern Ireland Teachers’ Council formally ratified an agreement to resolve the long running industrial dispute of teachers’ pay and workload.

At a meeting of the Teachers’ Negotiating Committee (TNC)  on 28 April 2020, Management Side and the Northern Ireland Teachers’ Council (NITC) formally ratified an agreement to resolve the long running industrial dispute of teachers’ pay and workload.

The Department of Education wishes to inform you that it has made the attached Notice which makes modifications to Article 58(1)(a) of the Education and Libraries (NI) Order 1986 and comes into operation on 25 April 2020.

Information in the form of infographics may be accessed via the links below. The information, drawn from the annual school census exercise, relates to numbers and characteristics of pupils at each school in the relevant academic year.

The purpose of this statistical bulletin is to provide results of the annual data collection relating to the uptake of school meals in Northern Ireland schools in 2018/19.