Ms Sarah Murphy:

Also, the Department should not come back to us telling us to get home-based tutors. If I hear that again, I will crack up. One of the parents in the booklet we put together contacted 37 tutors. It is really awful. You have to go on the Internet to find a tutor for the home-based programme, so you have to advertise your child on the Internet. It is a terrible thing to say, but teachers and SNAs will choose kids they can manage. Nobody will take my young fella. To get that constant rejection is really difficult as a parent. We polled the parents in our group of children with complex needs, and 94% of them do not want the home-based programme, so the Department has to stop saying to us there is a home-based programme for us. That is just the emperor's new clothes. If it does not work, it does not work. The Department should stop giving us things that are not suitable and telling us, "There you go, you have it now, be happy with that."