Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

On targeted work versus universal supports, and what is going on currently in the SCP, several co-ordinators were part of the consultation event and my Department is in ongoing engagement with them and one of them is represented on the task force. I hope there is enough of a vehicle or pathway for their engagement as we develop the blueprint for the SCP, listening to the concerns and the best way forward. The programme's works in schools in tandem with the home school community liaison programme and the work of educational welfare officers. The programme has never had a well thought-out policy base, not to mention a legislative one, upon which it can do its work. How that relates to other work that is going on in that context and that is why that is so important. We expect to have the blueprint published relatively soon and we will then move forward with the scoping of the programme itself.

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