Ms Phil Fox:

I thank the Deputy. The July programme, or the summer provision programme, is a programme that in the main requires teachers to be registered. In the past couple of years, the council has worked to enhance the supply of teachers available to students in receipt of summer provision or July provision. I refer specifically to this year gone by and to the student teacher registration process that was brought in by statutory instrument last January. This gave rise to more than 1,200 student teachers being made available to the system in order to provide summer provision to students who are in need of it.

Furthermore, during the time of Covid-19, to release some supply of teachers to those students, we initiated a measure in conjunction with the Department of Education to facilitate newly-qualified teachers who had completed their programmes but had not completed their registration to become involved and to be eligible to participate in the July provision and the summer schools programmes. Therefore, students under that measure who had completed their vetting-----