Circular 030/2011 – arrangements for the 2011/2012 for Learning Support/Resource Teacher and Resource Teacher posts has been recently been published on the DES website.
The purpose of this circular is to inform schools of the arrangements that are being put in place for the 2011/12 school year in respect of these approved resource hours so that posts are deployed in line with authorised allocations.
Schools should note the arrangements are different to previous years. It is also stated in Section 2.2 that it is the intention of the Department to restore recruitment from fixed-term teachers on the main panels, supplementary panels or public advertisement at the earliest possible opportunity. This however is unlikely to occur until, following discussion with the relevant education partners, arrangements have been devised that will enable the redeployment of any permanent and CID holding teachers still to be redeployed.
Section three notes the arrangements for the filling of vacancies and Section 4 has details of the Special National Panel.
Schools where the “roll-over” arrangement and any subsequent contact with local schools is not sufficient to meet the NCSE approved resource teaching hours and any General Allocation hours in existing part-time posts are requested to complete the Form LSRT 2011/2012 by Friday 17th June 2011.
To read Circular 030 / 2011, click on Circular
For a copy of the 2011/2012 LSRT form, click on Form