Ms Aileen O'Donovan:

Our case is similar to Ms Steinmetz’s in that our son is in fifth class at the moment and he has had an amazing primary school education. Anything Jack has needed, the school has provided for despite very limited resources. In fact, he recently received an additional diagnosis of insulin-dependent diabetes, and the principal looked for more resources because there had been a review of his SNA allocation and the school had been told to get on with whatever resources it had, that is, to take them from someone else. Our worry now relates to what will happen as he goes forward to secondary school, and by this time next year we will have to have made the decision. Will going into an unknown environment undo the past seven years of his education? The pathway is not clear. How to make provision for assessments and so on is unknown because we cannot get hold of the service provider to say what we need. It is a bit uncertain.