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Welcome to INTO Pages 6 & 7 Indepth feature on Special Education Pages 9, 10, 11 & 12 Visit to West Bank, Palestine Pages 13 & 14 Nuacht CMÉ Another year ends with no resolution

Another year ends with no resolution to way along this journey. happened outside of the context of a our ongoing dispute with the employing INTO continues to work towards a centralised ICTU action in my teacher authorities and the Department of successful conclusion with progress being union experience. Education. This despite an agreement in made to produce materials to ease the The industrial relations climate across principle having been reached amongst introduction of changes to working the public services has deteriorated the negotiation teams in practices that would flow significantly since we reached an May of 2019. should a deal come to pass. agreement in principle in May past. Other As things stand all sides There is also ongoing work trade union colleagues including UNISON, are awaiting a response to further review policies NIPSA, GMB, UNITE, UCU and others are from the Department of and working practices to now engaged in disputes across the Finance to the business ensure they are populated Health Sector, the Higher Education case, submitted by the with and resourced to Sector and the Civil Service and we Department of Education, include teacher union extend our solidarity and support to them to fund an agreement voices. This is a reasonable as they pursue legitimate claims in should you the members approach and a respect to pay, pensions, changes to their vote to accept the deal. demonstration, on the part working conditions and inadequate The Department of of the unions, of good faith. staffing levels. This crisis is a direct result Finance has been in Should the Department of a decade of Tory imposed cuts and can possession of this of Finance fail to approve be no surprise to anyone as trade unions business case for 6 the agreement in principle and citizens have been flagging this train months now and INTO reached in May then the wreck for several years now. and our colleagues across hard-won good faith and Continuing to subject hard-working the teaching unions are Gerry Murphy , trust goes out the window. public servants to pay freezes and wage increasingly frustrated Northern Secretary The carefully restored settlements below inflation while that what we have all relationships between the demanding even more work from them is worked hard to achieve on your behalf employers, the Department and the the road to perdition. Teachers have had since February 2018 is going to be lost. unions will be undone, making a enough. INTO and the other teacher The teacher unions, led by INTO, remain resolution in the short to medium term unions have had enough. If teachers are determined to see teachers begin the even more difficult. The trade unions will not made an offer in line with the long journey of pay restoration while at be left with no choice but to re-evaluate agreement in principle reached last May the same time having the unreasonable their action and in all likelihood escalate then the children and young people, their additional workload that has been it. This is something INTO and the other parents and society as a whole will want dumped on them over the last decade unions have worked very hard to avoid to know who is to blame. The teacher removed. Should the Department of but should it be necessary, it is not unions on behalf of the profession will not Finance approve the related business case something we will shy away from. The use be behind the door in laying the blame at they have been sitting on for the last 6 of “we” here is deliberate, for the NITC has the feet of the guilty and any additional months, then members will have the agreed that should further action prove action will focus on encouraging them to opportunity to give their verdict on necessary then all five teacher unions will reconsider what is beginning to look like whether the proposed deal takes us part act in concert, something which has not very poor decision making.

NORTHERN COMMITTEE INFORMATION

Area Branches Mobile INTO Email CEC 1 District 1 0101-0113 Seamus Hanna CEC Rep [email protected] CEC 2 District 2 0201-0217 Dorothy McGinley CEC Rep 07818424080 [email protected] BFC - Patrick McAllister BFC Rep 07828769034 [email protected] NEP North Eastern Primary Region 0101/0102/0104/0107/0109/0111 Michelle McCrystal INTO N Ctte 07851460682 [email protected] NES North Eastern Post-Primary Region 0101/0102/0104/0107/0109/0111 Siobhan McElhinney INTO N Ctte 07915091871 [email protected] SEP South Eastern Primary Region 0110/0113 Rachel O'Hare INTO N Ctte 07743427483 [email protected] SES South Eastern Post-Primary Region 0110/0113 John Kelly INTO N Ctte 07809694954 [email protected] BP Belfast Region Primary A 0106 Caroline McCarthy INTO N Ctte 07977935988 [email protected] BP Belfast Region Primary B 0105 Geraldine McGowan INTO N Ctte 07717277565 [email protected] BS Belfast Region Post-Primary 0105/0106 Caoimhin MacColaim INTO N Ctte 07710234126 [email protected] SP Southern Region Primary A 0202/0206/0208/0217 Marty Lavery INTO N Ctte 07733207887 [email protected] SP Southern Region Primary B 0201/0203/0211/0214 Noreen Kelly INTO N Ctte 07846392235 [email protected] SS Southern Region Post-Primary 0201/0202/0203/0206/0208/0211/0214/0217 Kevin Daly INTO N Ctte 07568528951 [email protected] W P Western Region Primary A 0209/0213/0215/0216 Marie O'Shea INTO N Ctte 07802891109 [email protected] WP Western Region Primary B 0207/0212 Moira O'Kane INTO N Ctte 07522937888 [email protected] WS Western Region Post-Primary 0207/0209/0212/0213/0215/0216 Annmarie Conway INTO N Ctte 07701049789 [email protected]

PRINTOUT 2 JANUARY 2020 INTO news Organising th e Union Starts in the Staffroom

During my first few months in the Chair of working under union recognition ‘The union is not a fee for service, it is the Northern Committee I have spoken with agreements as we do in the school collective experience of workers in hundreds of our members across the system here. But that is a very limited struggle’; ‘Workers are made of clay, not north either on the phone or in person. form of ‘unionisation’. Unionised glass’; ‘Don't underestimate the workers’. These conversations and meetings have workplaces that really deliver for workers In other words, the strength of any taken place in a variety of contexts and have, in the very first effective trade union is have very much brought home to me the instance, elected reps who based on the organisation range and commonality of issues facing work on site. INTO reps are and activism of its teachers from Dundrum to Derry, Roslea absolutely key to us being members, not simply on to Rasharkin and everywhere in between. able to ensure that we the expertise and abilities There is not a school in the north that have two way of its leaders – although does not face significant challenges and communication between that is important. as a result every single one of our members and elected Trade Union Organising members, from newly qualified teacher to officers and officials; they among the grass roots long standing Principal, find obstacles are key to articulating membership is not some and additional stresses and strains in INTO’s position on various abstract concept but a trying to do what they trained to do – issues and also in shaping very real requirement in educate children and young people. and influencing those ensuring that our current In the face of these challenges the role positions; reps ensure that phase of industrial action of the union is crucial and one really industrial action and any future action has pressing issue for INTO is that we still have instructions are the necessary impact on some staffrooms without an INTO communicated to our employers. On that workplace representative. This is hugely members where it counts note I would like to detrimental to members in those schools. and that such action is Kevin Daly , extend a huge thank you I am constantly reminding people that carried out in a disciplined Northern Committee to our school reps and ‘the union’ is not something that exists in and consistent fashion; Chairperson Branch Officers. We are an office in Belfast or Dublin and is not reps in well unionised well organised in most something that you ‘bring in’ when times workplaces will also be in regular contact areas but we must build on that. are hard, on the contrary, ‘The Union’ is with members and their Northern For my part, as Chair of Northern every single one of us and we all have a Committee reps and local Branches. Committee, I will be making renewed role to play in it. Those of us in elected As a Union we must keep striving to efforts to visit schools in the new year positions and those employed as Officials improve our organisational efforts in the and I will do my utmost to take up any will inevitably be seen as the face of the workplace. American Trade Union Activist invitation received to this end. I am union or heard as the voice of INTO, but Jane McAleavey wrote in her book, No confident that my colleagues on our effectiveness is increased where we Shortcuts – Organising for Power in the Northern Committee will be similarly have well organised and unionised Guilded Age , that Union representatives committed to engagement with workplaces. should, among other things: ‘Get close to members in their areas with a view to A unionised workplace begins with the workers, stay close to the workers’; ever improved and effective unionisation staff being members of unions and ‘Don't do for workers what they can do’; of our schools. Newry Branch Presentations

Left: Gerry McBrien became an INTO Honorary member of Newry Branch. He is pictured being presented with an INTO long service pin by Newry Branch Chairperson Elayna Duffy.

Right: Órla Murphy, St Mary’s PS, Mullaghbawn, Elayna Duffy (Newry Branch Chairperson) and Declan Colgan St Colman’s PS, Kilkeel . Elayna is presenting prizes to Orla and Declan from the Newry Branch member’s draw.

PRINTOUT 3 JANUARY 2020 Nuacht CMÉ Part-time teachers do have rights!

A recent sex discrimination case in the opportunity to explore this option. and part-time teachers. county Down, settled for £5000, has She believed that this was an While the figures for female hopefully reinforced INTO’s criticism opportunity for career enhancement teachers in Northern Ireland vary, the and highlighted the dangers of school which was denied to her. Equality Commission for Northern managements overlooking their part- In settling the case the Ireland have reported time teachers. Upon returning from school fully recognised that 39% of female maternity a teacher applied for and was that they had denied the employees work part- granted a flexible working arrangement teacher the opportunity time compared to 9% of which reduced her days from five to to apply or even be male employees and three. She felt at the time that the school considered for the 82% of all part-time was very accommodating to her by position and therefore employees in Northern supporting her domestic childcare disadvantaged her as a Ireland are women. In responsibilities. However, when a part-time employee. e light of this then any colleague was appointed as temporary Board of Governors action taken by an Head of English, she realised that she regretted both their employer which ignores had not been considered for the post decision and the upset it or excludes part-time because she was working part-time. caused to the teacher employees from a While she fully understood that to and have put steps in promoted post or properly fulfil the role of Head of English place to ensure that they alternative position is there may have been the expectation by would receive likely to lead to a more the school management that she would appropriate training in adverse effect on women have to return to working the full-time recruitment and Tommy McGlone , employees and therefore five day week, but that this was her selection with specific Senior Official may amount to indirect decision and she should have been given focus on reduced hours sex discrimination. Redeployment

To become a teacher, students must first between two teachers and two agreed scheme would be developed for go through the rigors of study for a participating schools. This opportunity teachers across all sectors, through the teacher qualification, then the is normally for educational purposes normal negotiating machinery of the preparation of a cv, going around which includes enabling teachers TNC and JWP. schools selling themselves to principals, to enhance their This would facilitate joining the NISTR register, awaiting professional experience teachers who have spent emails eventually being successful at an by teaching in different a long time in one interview process, and being made types of settings, and the school or sector, having permanent in a school. knowledge gained by the opportunity to When I received my first permanent such a reassignment explore other career post in England, there was an could be shared with options within teaching, understanding that you would remain in colleagues. without having to take a the post for four or five years, and then For many teachers, it is career break. you would look round for potential also an opportunity to It would also provide, promotions on teacher allowances, and move closer to home, to in cases where there are move to another school. This is not the make journey time ongoing industrial normal experience for teachers in the easier, and to allow them relations issues in north of Ireland. to be less stressed and schools, it may give For many teachers, the first school therefore more effective opportunities of where you receive a permanent in the classroom. movement for teachers appointment is the only school that you At present, such a where they feel it is Mark McTaggart , will ever teach in. Excellent teachers who scheme is not available to demonstratively better Assistant Northern Secretary wish to remain in the classroom and have teachers here. The for them to be no wish to go into school management Council for Catholic Maintained Schools redeployed to a suitable school. have very limited opportunity to (CCMS) has twice this year, sent letters to It may also allow for the temporary re- experience life in other schools. principals inviting opportunities for assignment of teachers across the island Teachers in the republic of Ireland redeployment from particular schools. of Ireland, which, as the only all-Ireland have the opportunity for ‘Temporary While this tentative step is to be teachers union, would be something we Reassignment’, which is an arrangement welcomed, it would be important that an would welcome.

PRINTOUT 4 JANUARY 2020 INTO news Flexible Working Empowers Teachers

At a teacher conference in England teachers work well beyond their personal responsibilities. recently a former government adviser contractual hours in order to satisfy the Surely school cultures that are more criticised teachers who asked to go part- needs of the job. accepting and supportive of flexible time after taking on full-time roles. He Many part-time teachers are known to working practices help to retain teachers even went so far as to suggest that it was, use their days off to complete school work in the profession. Making work seem “wrong and immoral,” for teachers to ask to be able to spend time at weekends with possible for people at crunch points in for their hours to be reduced after taking friends and family or engage in non-work their lives demonstrates compassion and on full-time jobs. activities. In essence, they are being paid care for staff. They, in turn, are more It is a stark indicator of how far we still part-time to work full-time likely to remain loyal to have to go to ensure that all school hours. an organisation where leaders, and those in positions of The former government they feel this is the case. influence, accept, support and adviser also said, “I don’t Yes, making flexible appreciate part-time teachers. Obviously think we should separate working work can be social media platforms were critical of life and work as if you go challenging. Yes, it is the adviser’s seemingly archaic to work to have a life, more straightforward to standpoint and offered many and varied because you are never timetable with full-time reasons why teachers rely on part-time going to have that teachers. Yes, parents, working. balance. Some people students and colleagues What is wrong and immoral is that have too much work, might prefer full-time teachers are expected to absorb work some people have too arrangements for into their personal lives and that it has much life.” Now I don’t continuity purposes. become customary for teachers to spend know about you but most However, the benefits of evenings and weekends completing people I know go to work recruiting and retaining professional tasks as unpaid overtime. to pay the bills and save high-calibre and The decision to request part-time up so they can have a life. committed part-time working often stems from lifestyle factors As far as I can work out we Paul Groogan , staff far outweigh the that make full-time work unfeasible. For only have the one life and Trade Union Official drawbacks. example, needing to care for a young nobody would want to Amid a recruitment and family or elderly relative or manage spend it all working. retention crisis, schools cannot afford to health challenges. There are also an The belief in an inability to even discount teachers on the basis of their increasing number of teachers who attempt to have a work/life balance, inability to commit to full-time deliberately opt to work part-time to inherently discriminates against teachers employment. manage other ventures or interests. This that attempt to have a family and/or a Flexible working empowers teachers reflects a diverse workforce with a range satisfying personal life. It is a sad who are thinking of their children or of personal circumstances. reflection of the teaching profession if it is parents and need to achieve some kind of Teaching is undeniably an exhausting impossible to achieve this. For many, work/life balance. For further information and demanding profession. The fact of part-time working is the tool that on flexible working schemes for teachers the matter is that the vast majority of supports with juggling professional and visit the INTO website.

Joint Leadership Conference ursday 30th January 2020 GLENAVON HOUSE HOTEL, COOKSTOWN Time Description Time Description 9.55am – 10.00am Welcome 10.50am – 11.10am Special Education: Update G White – NI President, NEU S Lawler – EA Head of Special Education and 10.00am – 10.30am Update on Pay Dispute/Industrial Action/ Inclusion Questions 11.10am – 11.20am Break G Murphy, Northern Secretary, INTO 11,20am - 12.00pm Implications of the DDA for School Leaders M Langhammer, Regional Sec. NEU C Trainor, Equality Commission. N ireland J White, General Secretary, UTU 12.00am – 12.30pm S Fitzsimons – Disability Action 10.30am – 10.50am Special Education: Update Close S ompson, President, UTU R Irwin – EA Director of Wellbeing and Inclusion Lunch Please note: ese conferences are extremely popular so book our place early to avoid disappointment. To apply: Please register your interest by emailing: [email protected] with your name, TRN, school and mobile number indicating whether you will be staying for lunch by 4.00pm on Friday 24 January.

PRINTOUT 5 JANUARY 2020 Nuacht CMÉ Welcome to INTO Meet Paul Donnelly

Paul Donnelly is the receptionist in transferring your call to an Official, or INTO Northern Office and all calls to getting someone to call you back, so the the office go through reception so the details you give at this stage should be first contact you will have with INTO brief, just enough to let the Official will probably be with Paul. know that your call is in relation to maternity, sick leave, promotions, Phone-call industrial action, etc. When you ring the Northern Office our Paul will then either, put you straight new database will recognise your through to an Official or log your call number, if you are a member and the on the system and assign it to the number you are ringing from is on your Official on the query rota at that time. member record. If your number is Your call can also be logged to a recognised the system will bring up your particular Official if they have already member record on screen and Paul will been dealing with your issue and Paul then verify your membership and check will be able to see who that is from his your contact details are correct. screen at reception. Paul will ask you what your call is about, please remember that Paul will be Email If you email INTO at [email protected] your email will be received by Paul at reception. If you have not included your TR number or school name, Paul will email you back, normally, to verify your membership and perhaps check your contact details. Once your membership has been verified your email will be recorded on the system and assigned to the official on the query rota at that time.

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NOrTHErN CONfErENCE 2020 will take place on Friday 6 – Saturday 7 March 2020 in e Canal Court Hotel, Newry

PRINTOUT 7 JANUARY 2020 Nuacht CMÉ Colm Lambe 1936 – 2019 Former Chairperson of Northern Committee Colm Lambe was an INTO stalwart who for a significant period of time. As a helping out at recruitment events. A keen gave tirelessly of his time for INTO member and chairman of Northern traveller, Colm and his wife, Maureen, members in the greater Belfast area and Committee he fought for went on a number of cruises beyond for many years. A Graduate of St teachers’ rights throughout and foreign holidays with close Mary’s (Training) College, Belfast, he many changes in Education, friends he had met through taught for over 40 years. The vast including the Jordanstown INTO Northern Committee. In majority of his teaching career was in Agreement, the introduction retirement he particularly North Belfast, spanning the decades of of the new Northern Ireland enjoyed taking holidays in the troubles, during which he encouraged Curriculum, and IT in schools. September when the schools and supported the pupils and teacher in A passionate educationalist he had restarted, because he his schools. Colm was Vice-Principal in St also represented District One could! Patrick’s PS Belfast, was principal of Holy on the INTO National First and foremost Colm was Family Boys’ PS and retired as vice- Education Committee, a a husband, father and grand- principal of the amalgamated Holy position he particularly he enjoyed. father. He passed away on 16 October Family PS, on the Limestone Road. Following his retirement in 2000 Colm’s 2019 and is sadly missed by his family, Throughout his teaching career he was involvement with INTO didn’t stop. He colleagues in Holy family and friends in an INTO member and trade union activist continued for a number of years to INTO. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis. in Belfast Branch. He was elected to, and provide support and advice to INTO represented the primary teachers in the members by volunteering in Northern Submitted by Nuala O’Donnell, INTO Senior BELB area on, INTO Northern Committee Office answering members’ calls and Official Mona Kelly 1949 – 2019 Former Tyrone Central Branch Secretary On the 16th December 2019, INTO and maker. Back in the day when some of us indeed attended the Annual Prize giving Tyrone Central Branch in particular lost could barely switch on the computer only recently. e farming community a true friend with the passing of Mona Mona was delivering twilight courses in also benefited from her knowledge and Kelly. Before she retired Mona was Vice IT. Mona always enjoyed company. She experience when she served as Principal of St Teresa’s Primary School loved meeting people and sustained Secretary of NIAPA (Northern Ireland in Loughmacrory and Secretary of lifelong friendships. She was blessed Agricultural Producers Association) Tyrone Central Branch of INTO. While with an excellent memory for names Since retirement she became skilled teaching and seeing the advancement of and dates which enabled her to work in needle craft, tried her hand at her pupils was her main focus, Mona out a family tree without the help of creative writing and had a great interest was also interested in the well-being of Ancestry .com! She enjoyed amateur in local history. teachers. She joined the INTO shortly drama and in particular the annual Mid- Regardless of everything else, the after leaving college, became school Ulster Drama Festival which she achievements and interests, family representative and eventually Branch attended regularly over many years. She always came first. Mona accommodated Secretary for Tyrone Central. Mona was also known to tread the boards on a relatives from far and wide. ere was devoted a lot of time and effort to the few occasions herself. She will be always a welcome at Mullanmore Road. Branch and its members. She made missed by the staff and pupils of Dean Her heart was filled with pride every recruitment her mission and she never Brian Maguirc College where she served time she mentioned her beloved boys missed an opportunity to talk to newly as a Governor for twenty five years and and their families. Her only regret, if she qualified teachers to expound the had any, after a life well lived might be benefits of being an INTO member. Her that she didn’t have more time to spend branch meetings might have been a with her grandchildren. little unconventional but you were To Mona’s boys and her entire family, assured of getting up to date we offer our deepest sympathy. Life is a information and guidance coupled with diary of memories, Mona featured on a good mixture of craic. many pages. Mona loved the INTO and she said Good Bye our dear friend and she found it a life line after the sudden colleague. Rest in Peace. passing of her husband Barney in 1994, leaving her with four sons. She adored Submitted by Rita Fox, Former Northern them and they adored her. Committee Chairperson Mona was an educator, a Left: Mona Kelly receiving her INTO long service pin communicator an advocate and a home from the then INTO President Anne Fay

PRINTOUT 8 JANUARY 2020 SPECIAL EDUCATION Change in special education

In recent years we have seen changes in consulted; it is an opportunity for your assaults, accidents and/or incidents SEN provision, many of which have raised voice to be heard. Let your Union know occur daily. The risk assessments are significant concerns for schools, services, if you have concerns. constantly having to be reviewed teachers, parents, stakeholders and most because complex profiles sometimes • Respond to consultations and importantly the children themselves. The need complex solutions. We need to encourage those you work with to push for change is set to continue as we speak up for smaller class size settings respond too. A response by INTO enter 2020 with training in the so that children have a better representing 7,000+ members will be implementation of the Special opportunity to reach their full potential. counted as one response, as will a Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) response by the Teaching colleges NI Act and the long-awaited consultation As teachers we have the means to representing their students, the Trust on the Sen Code of Practice. It is up to all influence the Department and Education and their Therapists. As a guide see the of us as teachers and stakeholders to take Authority to make changes. The responses to the consultation on the an active role. Department of Education CYP Strategy SEN Regulations (https://www. Change is in itself not always a negative 2019-2029 has been published 16 education-ni.gov.uk/consultations/ – as teachers we have embraced and December 2019 – it states eight outcomes. draft-special-educational-needs-sen- adapted to many changes over the years Lets make them stand by them for all. regulations). Despite significant and challenged those that we feel are • Children and young people are concerns being raised there has, to misguided. The INTO’s stance and your physically and mentally healthy date, been no revision of SEN action on assessment and levels of • Children and young people enjoy play Regulations published. Your responses progression has prevented a system unfit and leisure will make a difference. Previously when for purpose from being implemented and • Children and young people learn and we made a call to respond to a ensured a better informed and productive achieve consultation, on the Education budget, discussion on assessment between the • Children and young people live in you delivered – 23,000 responses went Department of Education and Unions safety and with stability in – that is not a typo – over 23,000 representing teachers. • Children and young people experience responses and a difference was made. What can we as teachers do to ensure economic and environmental wellbeing that future changes are in the best • Highlight concerns you have in school. • Children and young people make a interests of positive education for us all? The Principal can bring these to their positive contribution to society Governors and then importantly to SEN • Children and young people live in a • Speak out at training/presentations if you services at EANI CYPS. Think about the society which respects their rights have questions or concerns about what is pupil whose day has been reduced to • Children and young people live in a presented. Complete your evaluation an hour and a half because the society in which equality of opportunity forms reflecting your views of the resources are not available to provide and good relations are promoted. presentation/training. All presentations the right support. The pupils are forced and training are considered by the Dept to wait to get referred to the Education CaROlINe Mc CaRThy, Northern Committee Vice of Education and Education Authority Psychologist because you have to Chairperson, works in a Special School. Contact as consultation – you are being prioritise 2 or 3 a year. Meanwhile [email protected]

PRINTOUT 9 JANUARY 2020 SPECIAL EDUCATION New SEN Framework

In the bright brand new world of the When Goldilocks Education Authority, the SEND Act was went to the passed in 2016, but has not yet house of the commenced. bears, In the Special Education Provision, Oh what did her there will be 3 stages, as opposed to the blue eyes see? existing five: A bowl that was Stage 1  Majority huge, and a bowl (School) of children that was small, And a bowl that Stage 2  Smaller was tiny, and that (School + External number was all. Agency) of children She counted them: Stage 3  Minority one, two, three… (Statementof SEN) of children

e pathway to access external What is offered, regionally, going forward, services will still be done by the school’s Educational Psychologist. ey are, and cannot be too much, nor can it be too little. remain the gatekeeper to any additionality the Education Authority e EA services must deliver that which may be able to offer in order to ‘inspire, support and challenge all our Children is just right. and Young People to be the best that they can be.’ e new Stage 2 (but still Stage 3 until e original five stage Code of Practice plethora of acronyms, including SENCo the changes are implemented )services was presented to schools in the summer and IEP. How did we manage remain non-statutory and across the term of 1996, and introduced us to a beforehand? region vary in models of service delivery. ere has been work to transition and transform into one homogenous entity since the establishment of the Education Authority. However, much of the spadework was completed for the now abandoned Education and Skills Authority, which spent up to £15M without so much of a sniff of any Education, Skills or Authority ever coming to fruition. ere are four elements to the new framework: 1. Primary Legislation – Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 2. Secondary Legislation – New SEN Regulations 3. Guidance – a new statutory Code of Practice 4. SEN capacity building (training) on the new SEN framework

B. Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (Northern Ireland) CABF (SEND) e SEND Act is the first part in the new

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Educ ation Authority C hief Ex ec utiv e

Direc tor of Direc tor of Direc tor of Direc tor of E duc ation Direc tor of C hildren and Finance and IC T Opera tions and Esta tes Human R esources and Area Planning Young P eople’s S er vices Clare M angan

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Youth S er vic es and P rovision Special E duc ation – Sta tut or y Pupil S uppor t S er vic es Pupil Inclusion, Well-being and Opera tions and P rovision Prot ec tion

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SEN Framework, and it received Royal with ‘the voice of the child’ being heard. flow-charts (see above). Until then, Assent in March 2016. e Act places e voice of the professional should not schools are still using the 5 stage model. new duties on Boards of Governors, the be underestimated though, and remains Education Authority (EA) and health integral to the process regardless. E. SEN Capacity Building (training) on and social services authorities, and e Act also provides for increased the new SEN framework provides new rights for parents and cooperation between the EA and health SEN capacity building is underway to children over compulsory school age. and social services authorities to provide prepare the schools, Boards of e EA will be required to publish an services identified to be of benefit in Governors and the EA on the new SEN annual plan of its arrangements for addressing a child's SEN. framework. A staged implementation of special educational provision. ey will the new SEN Framework is anticipated also have to seek and have regard to the C. New SEN Regulations to be put in place during 2020. views of the child when making decisions A revised draft of the Regulations is You may be wondering why has there on special educational provision. e EA being finalised and it is intended that the been so many delays in the has appointed Global Mediation, an Department will conduct a further implementation of the new regulations. independent dispute avoidance and consultation on the draft Regulations. We could blame (the lack of) Stormont. resolution service, and independent Please make a response to the We could blame Brexit. We could blame mediation arrangements to assist them. consultation, and encourage your it on the sunshine or moonlight…. e big change in schools will be the colleagues to do so too. In any case, keep a look out for the appointment of a Learning Support Co - forthcoming consultations. Do respond. ordinator (but it is still SENCo until the D. New SEN Code of Practice Porridge anyone? changes are implemented) and the When this is made available, possibly in introduction of a PLP (but IEPs remain some part of 2020, it will go out to GeRalDINe McG OwaN, Northern Committee, until the changes are implemented) , schools with accompanying annexed works in the education authority literacy Service

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If you are a SENCO in a primary school do to support children. Problems also arise with SENCOs and you feel like you spend your life like a Schools are limited on the number of staff gaining access to quality CPD circus plate spinner or maybe you feel like children that they can refer, and it can take training. Many of the courses available are you’re playing a game of ‘whack-a-mole’? a long time before they are assessed. offered with no sub-cover or are provided You are probably frustrated that you Children may then be refused support if outside of the working day which means are unable to offer your pupils the they don’t meet the criteria set by the that teachers are struggling to obtain SEN support they need due to the pressure of Education Authority (EA). When children training. SENCOs are also spending extra increasing budget constraints and the do meet the criteria, it can take an time (unpaid) to complete tasks for their limited time that is made available to you excessively long time for the EA to make a role and this adds to dissatisfaction and to fulfil your role. decision or the school may be offered stress. In a primary school most SENCOs are advisory support. The onus is then on the As funding across the services continue full time teachers, and this makes it very school to support the child. These to be cut and the situation appears to be difficult to carry out SEN duties. We all thresholds have been raised and therefore worsening, delays in the system are know that excessive teacher workload is many pupils no longer meet the criteria to causing undue stress to children, parents having a significant impact on education receive direct specialist teaching support. and teachers. across the board, but this is even more If a child has met criteria and receives a Usually when you are spinning so many difficult if you are a SENCO. At cluster statement, the number of hours may not plates it is inevitable that at least one or meetings many primary SENCOs report be enough. Schools must then negotiate two will fall. Therefore, it is of the upmost that they are struggling to cope with the more hours which only further delays importance that we call for legally protected increasing demands on their time. access to the support that the child time for SENCOs to carry out their role and One of the biggest challenges is the requires. that the excessive paperwork is relentless paperwork. Much of it is There is also a lack of consistency streamlined to make it more workable. repetitive and often information is between services where there needs to be SEND should not be seen as ‘Little duplicated. There is too much more emphasis on resources children with extras’ and schools must be funded documentation required to have a child numeracy difficulties as more peripatetic properly so that all SENCOs have the assessed at Stage 3. Also, when you have support services are provided for Literacy, sufficient non-contact time and resources completed a SAR1 referral is then behaviour and AAIS. However, this support to be able to provide the support the frustrating to have to complete Appendix is not enough to meet the demand. children and young people need to be B and repeat the same information all Another prominent issue is the poor able to reach their full potential. over again. Not to mention the IEPs to communication between agencies. Greater Keep Spinning! write, evaluate and monitor; the data to training needs to be made available for review and analyse and the resource SENCOs in what services that they can MIChelle Mc CRySTal , Northern Committee, material to research and develop for staff obtain and how they can access them. works in a Primary School SEN within Post Primary When I first entered teaching the term number of places for the Educational paperwork, which is attached to the post “pupil centred“ was the buzz phrase. Psychologist to assess. but in reality, not enough time to address en came SEN revolution. We have lost During the August staff development the needs of children. the pupil centred approach and now days, the SENCO briefly updates staff on Schools are about to have another replaced with a more document focused any issues that have come to light the SEN update imposed and teachers must approach. I have found that the needs of previous year. Children are placed in work to ensure that it meets the needs of the pupils have been summarised onto a classes studying a variety of subjects and every child within schools. target sheet currently referred to as an expected to follow a curriculum designed e allocation of the budget for Individual Education Plan (IEP). As long for the average twelve-year-old which Special Educational Needs should fit the as this document has been completed doesn’t reflect the reality that some may diverse requirements of the pupils rather and reviewed annually everything will be have a reading age as low as six years. than schools having to attempt to work fine, or so it seems to be the subtext of How can the child cope? Perhaps the within the budget restrictions. the legislation. Unfortunately, this is not child will have a Statement of Educational e policy makers need to furnish the reality. Need and they may be lucky enough to be schools with a budget to implement the Children arrive in Year 8 carrying a entitled to classroom assistant hours. But Code of Practice. Investing in the young variety of educational, social and in many cases due to financial constraints people and addressing their needs must emotional needs. Some of which the within the school and EA, they may have be a priority for the Department of primary school didn’t get the chance to to share these hours. All these issues are Education. address due to having to prioritise managed by a SENCO, who may have students. e students must be some time allocated through their SIObhaN MCelhINNey, Northern Committee, prioritised as they only have a limited timetable to address the sea of works in a Post Primary School

PRINTOUT 12 JANUARY 2020 INTO news Trade Union Friends of Palestine visit to the West Bank 26th October – 3rd November 2019

mar al-Badawi was only 22 years soldiers often take children from their of age and unarmed, when he homes during the night. They are was shot by an Israeli soldier transferred to interrogation and within the grounds of the Al- detention centres, alone, sleep deprived Arroub refugee camp in the and often bruised and scared. Their OWest Bank. Initially wounded in the appearance in a military court is usually abdomen, he eventually bled to death. when a child first sees a lawyer and his Graphic and harrowing footage of the family. These courts rarely exclude moment he was shot soon appeared on evidence obtained by coercion, including social media, but his death, like many of “confessions” drafted in Hebrew, a the other Palestinians killed by the Israeli language that most Palestinian children army in the West Bank, went largely un- do not understand. If convicted, children noticed and un-reported. face a maximum sentence of between 10 Footage of the shooting first appeared and 20 years in prison, depending on on 11th November. My initial shock and their age. horror at the killing was added to when I the refugee camps in the West Bank. An realised that less than two weeks earlier, I Israeli military watchtower is located ur delegation was made up of 17 was part of a Trade Union delegation that immediately outside the camp and Trade Union activists from had visited Al-Arroub camp and clashes are frequent; as is the use of tear throughout Ireland. Unions experienced the warmth, kindness and gas, sound bombs, plastic-coated metal represented included the Irish hospitality of those who live there. We bullets and live ammunition by members National Teachers Organisation, also witnessed the cramped, of the Israeli military. Arrests and the UOnison, Unite and Forsa. Organised by overcrowded and unhygienic conditions detention of children in Israeli prisons are Trade Union Friends of Palestine (TUFP), that have to be endured by its 10,000 increasingly common during these with the support of the Irish Congress of inhabitants. clashes, and this was one of the issues Trades Unions, the focus of the visit was Al-Arroub is one of 19 Palestinian that the delegation was most interested children’s health and education and the refugee camps in the West Bank, which in investigating when we visited the West impact on these as a result of the on- together, are home to 800,000 Bank. going Israeli occupation. Palestinians. Located 10 miles south of We learned that every year, between The first couple of days were spent in Bethlehem it was established in 1949 500 – 700 Palestinian children, some as East Jerusalem, visiting a number of following the Arab-Israeli War and the young as 12 years of age, are detained and Palestinian run schools and experiencing declaration of the state of Israel in 1948. prosecuted in the Israeli military court first hand the inspirational attitude and 750,000 Palestinians fled or were driven system. Indeed, Israel is the only country determination of the teachers and pupils, from their homes as a result of what they in the world that automatically despite the challenging circumstances describe as the Nakba, “Catastrophe”. prosecutes children in military courts. The and environment that they have to According to the UN Relief and Works most common charge is stone throwing endure. Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNWRA) and since the year 2000, at least 8,000 East Jerusalem, along with the rest of Al-Arroub has one of the highest number Palestinian children have been arrested the West Bank and Gaza, was annexed of “incursions” by the Israeli military of all and prosecuted. Heavily armed Israeli and occupied by Israel following the Six

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Day War in 1967. (Israel’s ongoing checkpoints. The settlers live in a occupation of the West Bank, Gaza series of Jewish-only streets that are and East Jerusalem constitutes the heavily guarded by Israeli troops. We world’s longest military occupation in learned from our guide that these modern times). streets are referred to as “sterile zones”. Palestinians are not permitted oday, the Palestinian to enter. population of east Jerusalem A very uplifting part of our visit was stands at over 400,000 but they the time spent meeting with the remain under constant threat children and teachers of a school of losing their homes and within the militarised centre of the rTesidency rights. Supposedly granted city. The staff and pupils have to “Permanent Residency Status” in 1967, undergo a daily ritual of searches and they must continuously prove that questioning as they make their way they are resident in East Jerusalem or through the checkpoints to the face losing their homes. They are also school building and grounds that, by cut off from the rest of the West Bank any objective measure, is totally unfit by the separation wall that has been for the education of children. built by over the last two decades. The Nevertheless we were greeted by wall around Jerusalem twists and smiling, welcoming children and turns for around 125 miles and the rest teachers whose resilience and of the structure, built around the West settlers live in one of the 130 settlements determination in the face of such Bank, runs for around 440 miles. The built on land that has been occupied adversity was both humbling and Israelis initially argued that the wall was a since 1967. Most of the international inspirational. On the day our delegation temporary security measure but the community, including the UN and the visited, an Israeli soldier had shot a Palestinian people that we met were International Court of Justice, consider Palestinian woman at the entrance to the adamant that its purpose is to annex the settlements to be illegal, but this has Ibrahimi Mosque, not far from the school. more Palestinian land under the guise of not prevented their continued expansion. (In 1994, a Jewish settler shot 29 security. This view is supported by an EU Many now have well-established Palestinian worshippers dead inside the report from 2009 in which the Israeli neighbourhoods with shopping centres, mosque). This cut short our visit as it was government was accused of "actively cinemas, leisure facilities and even explained that 5 teachers who had been pursuing the illegal annexation" of East universities. All of them are heavily making their way to the school, had been Jerusalem. The report found that "…facts protected by the Israeli military and hospitalized as a result of tear gas, fired by on the ground, including new settlements, deliberately cut off from the rest of the the Israeli military, in the aftermath of the construction of the barrier, discriminatory West Bank. Amnesty International, along shooting. The school had to close and the housing policies and house demolitions… with many other organisations has children sent home early. weaken the Palestinian community in the argued that the settlements, and Israel’s city, impede Palestinian urban long running policy of settling civilians in s our trip to the West Bank came development and separate East Jerusalem occupied territory, amounts to a war to an end and members of the from the rest of the West Bank”. The crime. The Palestinian Authority is delegation were preparing to fly International Court of Justice has ruled powerless in preventing the expansion of home, one final surprise awaited that the wall is a violation of international the settlements, even in parts of the West us. Israeli security personnel at law and the UN General Assembly has Bank that are supposed to be under its BAen Gurion airport signaled members of called for its removal. direct control. our delegation out for intensive A moving afternoon was spent visiting questioning. They were clearly aware that the site of a number of Palestinian homes ne of the most tense and heavily we had been in the West Bank and a that had been demolished by the Israeli militarised settlements that our number of female delegates were forced military. Human Rights organisations and delegation witnessed, was the to undergo intimate and intrusive body the UN have consistently criticised the on- one established in the ancient searches. The experience was a far from going demolitions and Amnesty city of Hebron. Since 1997 the pleasant one, but paled in significance to International has contended that the Ocity has been divided into two sectors, H1 the hardship and oppression endured by Israeli government uses demolitions to and H2. H1, home to over 200,000 the Palestinian people. On a number of collectively punish Palestinians and to Palestinians, is under the control of the occasions, we asked those who looked seize property for the expansion of Israeli Palestinian Authority. H2, which includes after us on our visit, what we could best settlements. Despite this international around 500 settlers in the centre of the do to help the Palestinian cause. “Tell our condemnation, it is estimated that Israel city, is completely enclosed by 18 military story” was the reply, “tell the world what is has demolished almost 50,000 Palestinian checkpoints and under direct Israeli happening to us and especially to our structures since 1967. military control. Palestinian residents are children, because no one is listening”. As we travelled throughout the West subjected to repeated body searches and Bank the number and scale of Israeli harassment and must register to obtain Paul wOODS , belfast west branch INTO, St settlements was striking. Over 400 000 special permits to navigate through the louise’s Comprehensive College, belfast

PRINTOUT 14 JANUARY 2020 INTO news Work Experience Information, Advice and Guidance Required

New arrangements for work experience with the programme are not part of a both jurisdictions to provide placements for Controlled, Maintained and Irish teachers’ responsibilities and cannot of suitable quality, the new scheme Medium Schools were released by the reasonably be expected of them. ere throws up further ambiguities around Education Authority in September 2019. are at least six forms to be completed for indemnification. While allowing for A number of INTO members have been each pupil. In an average sized school pupils to travel across the border to take in touch with Northern Office to express with Post 16 Provision this could mean part in placements, the EA state that their concerns over these arrangements upwards of 500 pupils taking part in ‘indemnity cannot be provided by the which look like creating significant EA’. is will undoubtedly make schools additional workload and placing yet and employers wary of cross border more responsibility on the shoulders of … the organisation placements and make the provision of teachers and school leaders while, on the placements in certain rural areas for face of it, removing it from the and implementation large numbers of students very difficult. Education Authority. ere may well be reasons beyond the Work Experience is a valuable part of of Work Experience reach of the Education Authority alone the education of young people in to address with regard to this, but a schools. Best practice in Careers for young people more meaningful consultation process Education Information Advice and with teachers, schools and their Guidance (CEIAG) encourages the use also comes with representative Trade Unions may well of work placements and for some have led to more clarity and direction on vocational qualifications placements are huge responsibility this and other matters. e same applies a requirement for successful completion to those other areas of concern of the course. Quality work placements and significant highlighted by our members. offer valuable insight into the world of It has also been brought to INTO’s work and can enhance young people’s workload attention that not all schools were overall experience of education. In and included in the distribution of the new of themselves work placements can also guidelines when they were released at be valuable in helping young people to the start of this academic year meaning make effective and positive career work placements per year amounting to that staff and leadership in those schools choices. 3,000 required documents to be sent had even less notice and time to prepare However, the organisation and out, collected, compiled and completed. for the changes that have been imposed. implementation of Work Experience for is does not include initial letters out INTO have issued a bulletin offering young people also comes with huge to parents and carers and any log books advice on this matter and members responsibility and significant workload. or similar that have to be compiled and should contact their Northern Some of the issues identified by INTO as monitored, nor does it include whatever Committee Representative in the first being potentially problematic include: questionnaires or similar for the instance if they have any further queries recommended monitoring and or concerns. - e requirement for risk assessments evaluation. INTO will be seeking engagement - Vetting arrangements Some of the guidance around Access with EA on this matter. In the interim, - Placements in the South NI checks is at best vague and, it would the advice from INTO is for members - e level of paperwork required appear, inconsistent with DENI not to engage with the new work - Logistical problems of ensuring site guidelines on ‘Managing Safeguarding experience arrangements until we can be visits before and during placements and Child Protection in Schools’. ere assured that they will not be exposed to It is of paramount importance that the is clear guidance on safely managing unnecessary risk in doing so and until safety and well-being of young people on volunteers, parents, visitors and the issue of workload has been dealt placements is front and centre in any contracted workers. ere is also a with satisfactorily. Where the work preparation and implementation of requirement for enhanced Access NI placements are a compulsory element of work-based learning programmes. checks on in schools and on teaching a recognised qualification INTO advises However this takes significant time and staff, invigilators and contracted that teachers must be given adequate resources, the essential resource being transport providers. Yet when it comes time and resources to fulfil the teaching staff, properly trained and to sending young people on work requirements of the specification and equipped to carry out the necessary placements the guidance is much less should seek advice from their Northern visits and engage in the necessary specific. is is a matter of concern to Committee Representative or Northern myriad of communications with INTO. Office where necessary. employers, parents and the EA. For schools in border areas who have e administrative tasks associated traditionally relied on employers across KeVIN Daly , Northern Committee Chairperson

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INTO Officials and staff joined UNISON, NIPSA and UNITE on their INTO Northern Secretary Gerry Murphy in his capacity as President of ICTU addressing supporters picket line at the City Hospital, Belfast to express solidarity with at UCU rally their fight for pay parity and patient safety.

Branch secretary training day Limavady/ Dungiven Retirement

The Limavady/Dungiven branch of the INTO, held their annual retirement dinner at the Roe Park resort, Limavady in November 2019. The branch recognised the 37 year career of Mary Woods, who INTO Northern Secretary Gerry Murphy welcomes branch recently retired from teaching in the secretaries to a training day on the new membership system – Claudy area. building on and improving contact with our members Mary (left) is pictured receiving gifts from Mr Sean Mullan (Branch treasurer) and Mrs Joan Plight of Palestinian Children Conference Guthrie (Branch Chairperson).

The impressive INTO delegation to #PalestinianChildren #TUFP2019 who gathered in Dublin on 23rd November 2019 to learn about the plight of Palestinian children living under the horrors of military occupation.

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Charity Quiz QUB BRACs Research Susan McMullan, Vice Chairperson Down Branch, presents a cheque for QUB BRACs Research received a cheque for £180 £180 to Ian McCracken, Mourne following the Down Branch Charity Quiz in Mountain Rescue following a Branch Newcastle following their Branch meeting. Charity Quiz in Newcastle. In the photo, from left to right: Paul Boyd (District 1 and Down Branch Secretary, Dympna McPeake Down Branch Committee, Lotte Rietveld Netball Club QUB BRACs Research, Seamus Hanna District 1 CEC Rep, Susan McMullan Down Branch Vice At the request of Susan McMullan, Sarah O'Neill was delighted to be Chairperson. INTO Vice Chairperson, Down presented with the shield and hers Branch, and coach of the Newcastle will be the first of many names to be Netball Club, Down Branch kindly recorded on the INTO shield. The sponsored the 'INTO support and generosity of Coaches Choice the INTO branch is Shield' for the player gratefully appreciated by of the season, the club and it's members. marking the end of its The club has over 90 girls first competitive aged from 9 – 16, from season in the Netball various schools around the NI league. The County, registered and inaugural recipient, playing in the club.

Northern Committee meet at James Connolly Centre

Michelle McCrystal briefs the Northern Committee on her recent delegate visit to the West Bank and East Jerusalem, during the December meeting in the James Northern Committee outside the James Connolly Visitor Centre Connolly Visitor Centre

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PRINTOUT 18 JANUARY 2020 INTO news Save the Children Christmas Jumper Day

Christine McDonnell (INTO Office Manager) is pictured presenting Peter Bryson (Head of Country – Northern Committee and Northern Office Staff supporting ‘Save the Children Christmas Jumper Day’ on Save The Children) @savethechildren_ni with a Friday 13th December cheque for £130.00

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