Support services
The Department of Education offer the following support services:
Employee Assistance Support
The Employee Assistance Service (EAS) provides teachers and immediate family members with access to confidential counselling and assists in coping with the effect of personal and work-related issues. Counselling is provided on issues such as health, relationships, addictions, bereavement, stress, conflict, critical incident and trauma.
The service is free and confidential and available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to teachers.
- Free phone 1800 411 057
- or text ‘Hi’ to 087 145 2056 on SMS
- or 087 369 0010 on WhatsApp.
More information about the Employee Assistance Support.
National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS)
NEPS psychologists work with both primary and post-primary schools and are concerned with learning, behaviour, social and emotional development. Each psychologist is assigned to a group of schools.
More information about the National Educational Psychological Service.
Catalogue of Wellbeing Resources for Schools
The Catalogue of Resources provides a non-exhaustive list of documents and resources that are provided by the Department of Education, its agencies, support services, other Government Departments and their agencies and by the Health Service Executive (HSE) to assist the promotion of wellbeing across school communities.