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IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR ALL INVOLVED IN EDUCATION.
Key messages from our submission to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth yesterday on Inclusive Education. Opening statement and Full Submission can be viewed on our website principalsforum.org
Principals please check your inbox for a very important survey from NPF. Your input is very important at this time. Míle buíochas.
Principals - please check your school inbox and sign NPF Petition sent on Friday. It requires timely engagment. Please share link with fellow Principals across the country. Wishing you all a restorative Easter Break.
Thanks Minister Naughton for your engagement & for listening to the operational experience of school leaders implementing education policy on the ground. Ensuring alignment between responsibility, authority & resources is key. We look forward to continued constructive engagement.
The National Principals Forum met with the Minister today to discuss key challenges facing primary school leadership. We highlighted the need for:
• Sustainable principal roles
• Stronger inclusion and SEN structures & data collection
• Funding that reflects our reality
Happy SNA Appreciation Day to all our wonderful colleagues. Thank you for your collegiality, friendship, hard work and good humour, for all you do and the difference you make in the lives of our pupils. @forsa_union_ie
We are deeply concerned & frustrated by the NCSE SNA Review Guidelines, which will inevitably lead to yet more unwarranted & unsustainable cuts to our most vulnerable pupils & will severely impact the educational experiences of all pupils.Please sign&share chng.it/rcvxWvt2zc
Brilliant news. Well done @forsa_union_ie @Forsaschoolsecs Hopefully full and fair resolution is reached. Fair play 🙌 We are so relieved too to have our colleagues back on Monday.
📢Strike Withdrawn - well done to secretaries & caretakers!!
After agreement at the WRC with:
- Commitment to negotiate comparable pension entitlements
- Discussions on caretakers' pay framework
- Access to bereavement, sick & acute illness protocols
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A tough week. We hope you are all OK. We stand with our secretaries & caretakers & hope for reason & fairness to prevail & a positive resolution to the strike. Stay strong 💪 #pensionparity @forsa_union_ie @Forsaschoolsecs
National Principals' Forum retweeted
On paper, that looks supportive; in practice, it outsources the risk to principals and teachers. bit.ly/46iwVbp
Great to see. Our secretaries and caretakers need the support of colleagues, management, school communities to bring this strike to a positive resolution. #PayParity @forsa_union_ie @Forsaschoolsecs
We stand with our secretary in Loughmore NS #PayParity @forsa_union_ie @Forsaschoolsecs @TippFM @TipperaryLive
Wishing the very best of luck to our secretary and caretaker colleagues starting their just strike tomorrow. We value you. You are not alone. We hope for a swift and fair resolution. Our schools will be lost without you. #PensionParityNow @forsa_union_ie @Forsaschoolsecs
National Principals' Forum retweeted
This is my grandmother Margaret. She has been a school secretary for 28 years. She will retire without an occupational pension.
This is wrong - Pension Parity should be given to all!
The Minister must act to avoid strike!
@HMcEntee @Education_Ire @labour @forsa_union_ie
National Principals' Forum retweeted
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David Hearne, Chairperson of school caretakers. His personal story. Very moving. #strikestrikestrike – at Ireland
Our school secretaries are invaluable in our schools. They deserve all of our support.
We support our invaluable colleagues.
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