Mr. Andy Pike:

I would point to the third topic, which is education, including limited effectiveness of special classes to promote full inclusion. That was what we thought the committee wanted to hear about. Fórsa's view on July provision is that it needs to become embedded in the school calendar. It needs to become something that schools are expected to provide more than given an option on. There are resource issues there that probably need to be looked at. We do not know how many special needs assistants participated in July provision. The only way one could find that out is to look at how many were paid the rate. That is something that mitigates against SNAs necessarily volunteering to do July provision. There are some issues there, in that the rates have not been looked at for many years.