Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Early childhood educators are saying they do not even have an input into the child starting primary school. They have amassed so much information about a child, the supports that child needs and what works and does not work, yet there is no mechanism for transferring that information from the early childcare sector into primary school. The children's disability network teams, CDNTs, used to link primary school into post-primary school, which makes sense. There needs to be joined-up thinking between the different sectors and it is not happening.