Mr. Darran Heaney:

The FUSE programme is underpinned by a whole education approach. When all of these facets work together, namely, the parents, the school community and the teachers, there is a much greater impact, as opposed to a stand-alone resource operating in a school over a specific period of time. The FUSE programme is evidence based. It is linked to the nine components of the whole education approach. FUSE shows up in each of these nine components, whether looking at student agency, education of the teachers, policy and policy development. We are in the second year of it and it has been really well received by schools. This year,127 schools have participated and even while they had struggles with Covid they still delivered and it was still engaged with. As it is the end of the academic year, we are processing the data and feedback is very positive on it.