NAHT(NI) instructs its members to comply with the following industrial actions short of strike action on a continuous basis, commencing 00.01 on 28 September 2026:
- Refuse non-statutory, duplicate or unnecessary requests for information, data or financial planning from employers or other relevant bodies, including requests for information already provided or available elsewhere.
- Refuse to provide information to employers regarding staff participating in industrial action short of strike action.
- Refuse unsolicited contact from the employing authorities and the DE on any issue save for legitimate matters of safeguarding or any issue deemed by the Principal to be useful to the school.
- Refuse to facilitate school visits by School Development Services, save for legitimate safeguarding issues or if the school is in Formal Intervention.
- Refuse unsolicited contact from School Improvement Professionals or any unsolicited contact/correspondence from employers, save for legitimate safeguarding issues or if the school is in Formal Intervention or where the Principal deems it useful to the school.
- Refuse to promote, facilitate or engage with any new initiatives, including any initiative relating to TransformED, that have not been explicitly workload assessed with the removal of workload to accommodate the initiative identified.
- Refuse to compensate for School Development Planning tasks, responsibilities and material not provided by staff participating in lawful industrial action.
- Refuse to operate, engage with or implement PRSD for any member of staff who is at the top of their respective scale, including the Vice Principal and Principal.
- Refuse to attend, facilitate or assist more than one Governors meeting per term or disseminate (or assist with the dissemination of) training materials to governors, and refuse to produce or administer the Governors’ annual report to parents.
- Refuse to pass on any communications to staff or Governors that emanate from the employing authorities OR the DE.
- Refuse to facilitate any budget-based redundancy for any member of staff.
- Do not conduct clerical, administrative or operational IT/infrastructure technical tasks.
- Do not facilitate requests from DE or employing authorities during periods of school closure, except in relation to urgent safeguarding or child-protection matters or formal legal requirements requiring immediate action.
- Do not undertake any administrative, managerial or leadership responsibilities for EA summer schemes in special schools.
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