All teachers will receive a detailed directed time budget for the upcoming academic year before the summer break of the previous year.
- Teachers’ Pay and Conditions of Service 1987-26/ B – 21/3a https://www.education-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/de/1987-26-teachers-pay.pdf – ‘The professional duties of a Principal shall include: Deploying and Managing all teaching and non-teaching staff of the school and allocating particular duties to them (including such duties of the Principal as may properly be delegated to the Vice-Principal or other members of the staff), in a manner consistent with their conditions of employment, maintaining a reasonable balance for each employee
- TNC 2011/8 Appendix III Time Budgeting 1.3 https://www.education-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/de/tn2011-appendiiitime-budgeting.pdf – ‘The Principal is responsible for determining a time budget to each member of the teaching staff, giving due regard to the individual responsibilities of each teacher. The Principal should seek to agree with each teacher the range of activities/duties which that teacher will undertake and the amount of time which that teacher will spend on each of these. The time budget should be distributed prior to the commencement of the teaching year.’
- Agreement between Management and Trade Union Side of the Teachers’ Negotiating Committee TNC 2020/1 – 6 https://www.education-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/education/TNC%202020-1%20Agreement%20Between%20Management%20and%20Trade%20Union%20Side%20of%20the%20Teachers%20%20Negotiating%20Committee.pdf – ‘Schools will use the period between the ratification of the agreement and the end of the 2019-20 school year to prepare for the implementation of the arrangements outlined above from the beginning of the 2020-21 academic year. This will include producing time budgets for each teacher for the 2020-21 school year.’
- TNC 2024/2 Workload Agreement 1.1 https://www.education-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/education/TNC%202024-2%20%20Workload%20Agreemeent.pdf – ‘c. to ensure that members of staff are able to observe their contractual requirements, pursue their careers and undertake their day to day duties without unfair and unreasonable requirements being placed on them in relation to those duties and with sufficient time to enjoy a reasonable work/life balance; d. to protect and enhance the professional relationships within a school; e. to ensure that Boards of Governors as employers are aware of and in a position to meet their legal obligations with respect to employment matters and to operate within the spirit of the legislation governing Working Time and Health and Safety.
- TNC 2024/2 Workload Agreement 1.2.2.i https://www.education-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/education/TNC%202024-2%20%20Workload%20Agreemeent.pdf – ‘That workloads will continue to be managed in an open, fair and equitable way at departmental/school level and that Teachers are able to challenge unfair and/or unreasonable distribution of workload.’
- TNC 2024/2 Workload Agreement 3.1 https://www.education-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/education/TNC%202024-2%20%20Workload%20Agreemeent.pdf – Directed Time means time spent on any activity which the Principal has determined that Teacher shall undertake. A Teacher shall be available to perform such duties at such times and such places as may reasonably be specified by the Principal. All the time that a Teacher has to be on school premises is included in Directed Time. Time spent off school premises in preparing and marking lessons is not included in a Teacher’s Directed Time
- TNC 2024/2 Workload Agreement 4.3 https://www.education-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/education/TNC%202024-2%20%20Workload%20Agreemeent.pdf -The Principal is responsible for determining a time budget to each member of the teaching staff, giving due regard to the individual responsibilities of each Teacher. The Principal should seek to agree with each Teacher the range of activities/duties which that Teacher will undertake and the amount of time which that Teacher will spend on each of these. The time budget should be distributed prior to the commencement of the teaching year
- TNC 2024/2 Workload Agreement 5.5.1 https://www.education-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/education/TNC%202024-2%20%20Workload%20Agreemeent.pdf – ‘It is recommended that each Teacher’s time budget includes an element of contingency time to ensure there is flexibility to accommodate situations that may arise and are unaccounted for within the time budget’