Equality Screenings

This is a guidance document specifically concerned with transport from home to school at the start of the school day and transport from school to home at the end of the school day.

The policy codifies and clarifies the requirements around AccessNI checking for contractors working on EA sites and when roles fall within regulated activity in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (NI) Order 2007.  The document provides guidance to both EA staff and organizations contracting with us about when a check should be carried out. 

The parental payment itself has been equality screening and can be found on the EA website.
There has also been a move over the last number of years to make many of the EA processes digital and those screenings can be found on the EA website too.

The policy document sets out the Education Authority’s (EA) commitment to supporting women in the workplace. The Policy Recognizes that women may need additional consideration, support and adjustments during the time of change before, during and after the menopause. The development of this Policy was committed to as part of the EA Gender Action Plan 2019-2022.

This screening relates to the decision to rectify an administrative error around the contractual enrolment of some employees into the NILGOSC pension scheme.

To introduce on-line applications for admission to pre-school education, primary and post primary schools that will provide a modern and efficient admissions service for all stakeholders.

The proposal is to develop a policy to derive a fair and consistent Article 60 budget for each Special School, calculated on a consistent basis for each school.  It is proposed that this would operate on a pilot basis for the 2020-21 financial year.

The Framework for Specialist Provision in Mainstream Schools sets out the rationale and delivery framework with regards to specialist provision in mainstream schools across Northern Ireland

The Framework also develops criteria and indicators to evaluate our special school estate in order to identify need and make suitable provision for future needs of children and young people with special educational needs.

Through ongoing engagement with young people throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, the EA Youth Service is also acutely aware of the negative effects of this on employment pathways and educational opportunities for young people and wish to address these through the LYNC programme.   
 

As part of the on-going improvements introduced to EA’s recruitment and selection processes in 2019, a review of the supporting pre-employment checking processes has also taken place.

The aim of this document is to introduce a focused health and wellbeing strategy and action plan for EA, which will provide health and wellbeing initiatives and bring existing initiatives under one banner. 

The school complaints procedure has been in use by schools since 2008 and was reviewed in 2012. With the advent of the Northern Ireland Public Services Ombudsman’s jurisdiction over schools in 2016, the procedure was again reviewed.

This suite of guidance was developed to improve outcomes for school age mothers (SAMs) by providing a labelled pathway of integrated support for young parents and their families, as well as other stakeholders.

EA Youth Service is required under the “Priorities for Youth Policy” to deliver services in response to assessed need and to support the Department of Education (DE) priorities at a local and regional level. 

As we continue to plan and manage our response to the COVID-19 pandemic, EA introduced a number of initial, short term, important measures in order to continue to deliver essential education and support services for children and young people, particularly those most vulnerable in our society.

The guidance is for Principals and line managers to support staff returning to school following the closure of schools on 23 March 2020 for the normal education of children in schools following the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Education Authority has developed guidance for schools, EOTAS centres and Youth Service on supporting transgender young people.

The Information Governance Unit is tasked with the development and implementation of clear organisational structures, systems and procedures for the management of information

The Arrangements allows KS4 pupils and +16 pupils, in Controlled, Maintained and Irish Medium schools, to engage in a period of work placement and be absent from normal schooling.  

Elective Home Education is the term used to describe the practice by which parents decide to educate their children outside of the school system. 

This screening exercise covers proposals in relation to posts reporting to the above functional managers which are currently based on structures inherited from the 5 former Education & Library Boards.

EA wish to transform the recruitment function, currently paper based, to an electronic system. This is the next step on the road to digital transformation strategy that fits with the EA’s own priorities but also with the wider PfG targets.