Mr. John Kearney:

On the degree of consultation, I want to reassure the Senator that we are very much continually listening to feedback from parents and school leaders. In relation to the SNA redeployment in schools, we have conducted 1,100 workshop sessions with school leaders. The strong endorsing feedback from that was to get allocations out early to schools and streamline them with teacher allocation that normally goes out in February to make sure SNA allocations and special teacher allocations are going out in that phase as well. There is evolving complexity of need which arises in school. Just two years ago we conducted 700 reviews. We conducted 1,400 reviews within schools and during the summer months we conducted another 200. That is a cumulative total of about 2,300 reviews which we have conducted in schools. We are continually trying to keep up with the emerging need. That is a fluid dynamic within schools where we are trying to keep a handle on that and respond swiftly to schools’ emerging needs.

I will ask Mr. Hanlon to take an element of the overall allocation.