ACCS/info Bulletin 44/19
Mon, Oct 14th, 2019
The Secretary,
Board of Management and
School Principal in
each Community and Comprehensive School.
Members of the Executive of ACCS.
ACCS/Info Bulletin 44/19
Re: Budget 2020
Please find attached the ‘Main Features of Budget 2020’ as published by the Department of Education and Skills.
The main features impacting on Community and Comprehensive Schools include:
The total number of teaching posts will rise by 581 by the end of 2020. 153 will derive from forecast demographics, much of the remainder will be in the area of special education.
Schools capitation for all schools will increase by a further 2.5% from September 2020. Enhanced capitation rates will increase by 7.5% from September 2020.
Support will be provided to Community and Comprehensive Schools to recruit secretaries and caretakers as follows:
Caretakers: school with enrolments of 700 or more will be permitted to fill caretaker vacancies provided they have fewer than 2 Caretakers.
Secretaries: school with enrolments of 500 - 625 will be permitted to fill secretary vacancies provided they have fewer than 1.5 and schools with enrolments of 626 – 699 will be permitted to fill vacancies provided they have fewer than 2 posts filled.
1,064 additional SNAs will be allocated, bringing the total numbers to over 17,000 in 2020. This will support the rollout of the new School Inclusion model, including a new allocation methodology for mainstream schools in the 2020/21 school year.
Commitment to development of apprenticeships set out in the Action Plan to Expand Apprenticeship and Traineeship 2016-2021 will see 1,800 registrations on new apprenticeships and 5,765 registrations on pre-2016 apprenticeships in 2020.
The schools 2020 allocation will support circa 60 new projects going to construction in 2020 ranging in value from €1m to projects with a value in excess of €20m delivering in excess of 30,000 school places (permanent additional and replacement places). This is in addition to in excess of 40 existing projects ranging in value from €1m to projects with a value in excess of €20m which are currently in construction and being progressed through 2020 delivering up to 25,000 school places (permanent additional and replacement places).
ACCS particularly welcomes the continued alleviation of the moratorium on recruiting of secretaries and caretakers in Community and Comprehensive Schools initiated by Minister McHugh at the ACCS Convention 2019.
Is mise,
le mór mheas,Main Features of Budget 2020
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John Irwin,
General Secretary ACCS.