Assistant Secretary for Teachers and Special Needs Assistants Terms and Conditions, External HR, School Transport, Residential Institutions Redress Unit

Responsible at Assistant Secretary level for the following areas:

• Teacher and SNAs Terms & Conditions regulate the employment terms and conditions governing Teachers and Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) employed in recognised primary and post primary schools
• the External HR Unit manages industrial relations for the wider education sector. The Unit's function is to promote good industrial relations practice throughout the education sector and encourage and support the modernisation of the sector
• School Transport Section of the department determines policy relating to school transport and administers the School Transport Schemes
• the Residential Institutions Redress Unit manages the department’s response to initiatives for the redress of child abuse in residential institutions