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PAYROLL SAVINGS REQUEST POSES ‘UNPALATABLE’ OPTIONS
The Association accepts that all of the potential options to save
money are unpalatable. NAPD calls on those partners who will be
involved in negotiating the required savings to be open to the hard
choices necessary to safeguard the P-T-R.
NAPD will continue to liaise with
the education partners in an
attempt to safeguard existing
resources but there is little room
to manoeuvre.
Having regard to the Department’s stated position of “appropri-
ate increases in the classroom teacher allocation schedule will be
introduced”, in the event of there being no agreement between the
negotiating parties, NAPD believes that a temporary reduction in
staffi ng, involving fl exibility at school level, and along the lines of
a model previously suggested by NAPD, will be preferable to an
across the board adjustment in P-T-R.
ESHA MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2011 37