Ms Bernie McNally:

I will answer the question on the summer programme. We will look at the specific school transport issue raised and come back to the Deputy. We have significantly reduced the number of issues with special education transport.

The summer programme is important for children, young people and their families. We have put a huge amount of time and investment into it. We have seen radical increases in the number of children accessing it in the past few years. We focused on getting more schools as we would like to see every special school offering it as well as lots of mainstream schools. We have invested significantly to get more schools involved, have had some success and continue to work on it. We have put in a lot of improvements over the years. We have a national co-ordinator now who is working with them. We have added leadership roles in the schools so that the principal does not always have to do all the work. We pay organisers and managers to do it. We also looked at what is the best way to get more staff. Parents want their children to go to the special school they go to for the rest of year. Where possible, they want the children to be with the staff who have been with them for the rest of the year. We appreciate that teachers and SNAs need a break in the summer so we have looked to see how we can incentivise more of the local staff to be part of the summer programme. This year, we changed the funding a little to be able to give staff their personal rate of pay, not the first increment, in order that they get what they are paid for the rest of the year. We have taken a number of initiatives to encourage and support the programme. Will my colleague Ms Mannion add to that?