Attached teacher staffing and funding
Information for schools about what funding and staffing they will receive for attached teachers.
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If you decide to appoint, or have appointed resource teachers, itinerant teachers, or a regional health school teacher this page explains how allocation of staffing and funding works.
- Entitlements for attached teachers
- Checking you have been allocated staffing
- Additional funding
- Administration grants
- Travel grants
- Further information
Your school’s entitlements for attached teachers
Each of the following full-time positions entitles an employing board to:
- additional staffing support time of 0.05 full-time teacher equivalent (FTTE)
- payment of a salary unit.
Attached teachers must be paid from teachers’ salaries (TS). You can only pay these salary units to the named teacher. They're not part of the board’s entitlement.
These attached teachers are:
- resource teachers of Māori (RTM)
- resource teachers of hearing impaired (RHI)
- resource teachers of vision impaired (RVI)
- resource teachers: literacy (RTLit)
- resource teachers: literacy Māori (RTLitM).
Checking you’ve been allocated staffing for attached teachers
You’ll find the provision of staffing for an attached unit and/or an attached teacher on your staffing entitlement notice. Look for ‘Support Time Allowance’.
The salary units are identified on the entitlement notice with the named teacher occupying the attached position.
Additional funding for attached teachers
The Ministry makes additional payments for administration and travel to boards that manage cluster resources or have attached teachers. Payments are made for the teachers above, and also for:
- itinerant teachers of music (ITM) (travel only)
- regional health school teachers (travel only).
Administration grants — their purpose and allocation
This is a standard grant for each position. It's paid to the fund-holder board in a cluster, or to the board to which the teacher is attached. The grant is for administration costs, such as ongoing professional development, cleaning, telephone and fax lines, and cell phones.
Travel grants — their purpose and allocation
Travel grants are for travel related to servicing schools, teachers and students. Travel grants are paid to boards of schools with itinerant positions. Grants are paid to the fund-holder board in each cluster, or the board to which the teacher is attached.
Budget for the cost of travel for attached teachers
Ask attached teachers for a travel programme for approval at the start of the year, to ensure their estimated travel costs fall within the board’s budget.
Apply for changes to the level of travel
There are 5 travel grant funding rates.
Apply to the Ministry to change the level of travel grant for positions.
Resource Teacher Travel Application Form [DOCX, 50 KB]
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