Written answers
Tuesday, 6 October 2015
Department of Education and Skills
Education and Training Boards Staff
Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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629. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of resource persons, resource workers, and resource co-ordinators within Youthreach structures; if those persons must be registered with the Teaching Council; and if they are considered teachers by her Department. [33998/15]
Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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Co-ordinators and Resource Persons employed in the Youthreach programme operated by Education and Training Boards (ETBs) are not employed as teachers and as such they are not required to register with the Teaching Council.
They have their own separate terms and conditions which are set out in Department circulars. While the Department does not specify particular qualifications for co-ordinators and resource workers, the ETB as the employer may set out their own requirements for the posts.
pauline hardiman
Posted on 24 Oct 2016 6:42 pm (Report this comment)
This implies that Coordinators and Resource Persons do not have to adhere to the Code of Professional Conduct as they are not required to register with the Teaching Council even though 21 out of 37 hours are spent teaching disadvantaged learners.