Ms Mary McGrath:

Each SENO is assigned a caseload of schools. As mentioned earlier there are 73 SENO posts and 67 are currently filled throughout the country. Each SENO has a caseload of schools and engages with parents who live in the locality around that caseload of schools. The caseloads are geographical. Quite often the first time a parent engages with a SENO is when their child is at that pre-diagnosis stage where they contact the local SENO. They may become aware of the SENO through one of our parental engagement sessions. We work with HSE teams to reach out to families on waiting lists in order that we can set out what that education journey will look like, the different options and the different services and how to access those services within that education system from preschool, be that the early intervention classes or the access and inclusion model, AIMS, in the ECCE scheme to which no doubt Ms Prendeville will refer.