Provision is made for:
The contracting of staff members to supervise pupils during break times and during periods before and after school.
The contracting of staff members to provide additional cover where substitution requirements cannot be met under existing arrangements,
The employment of additional external supervisors to supplement these arrangements where required.
The terms and conditions governing this agreement are contained in Circular Letter PPT 01/03.
Records of all teacher absences and the reasons therefor should be kept by the school management and available for inspection by the Board of Management and/or by the DES.
In the context of economic measures introduced to schools in January 2009 provision has been made for the allocation of a limited number of hours to schools to be used at the discretion of school management in the event that the supervision/substitution scheme cannot provide for the substitution needs of the school. These hours may not be exceeded during the course of a school year.