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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Apr 2022)
Josepha Madigan: The Special Education Teaching allocation provides a single unified allocation for special educational support teaching needs to each school, based on each school’s educational profile. The SET allocation model has been in place since 2017.The allocation model, which was recommended by the National Council for Special Education (NCSE), is designed to distribute the total available...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Apr 2022)
Josepha Madigan: The Special Education Teaching allocation provides a single unified allocation for special educational support teaching needs to each school, based on each school’s educational profile. Under the allocation model, schools have been provided with a total allocation for special education needs support based on their school profile. The SET allocation model has been in place...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Apr 2022)
Josepha Madigan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 99 and 100 together. Enabling children with special educational needs to receive an education is a priority for this Government. This year, my Department will spend in excess of €2 Billion, or over 25% of the Department’s budget on providing a wide range of schemes and supports for children with special educational needs. This includes...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Apr 2022)
Josepha Madigan: Enabling children with special educational needs to receive an education is a priority for this Government. This year, my Department will spend in excess of €2 Billion, or over 25% of the Department’s budget on providing additional teaching and care supports for children with special educational needs. The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) has...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Apr 2022)
Josepha Madigan: The National Council for Special Education Visiting Teachers, are qualified teachers with particular skills and knowledge of the development and education of children with varying degrees of hearing loss and/or visual impairment. They offer longitudinal support to children, their families and schools, from the time of referral through to the end of post primary education The management of...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Apr 2022)
Josepha Madigan: Special schools funded by my Department are classified as primary national schools and are intended, in accordance with the provisions of Rule 64(1) of the Rules for National Schools, to cater for children and young persons with special educational needs from the age of 4 years until the end of the school year in which they reach their 18th year. Special schools may however seek approval from...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Apr 2022)
Josepha Madigan: The School Inclusion Model (SIM) is based on policy advice from the National Council for Special Education based on the principle of providing the right support at the right time delivered by a range of personnel with relevant qualifications and skill-sets. Its purpose is to help students achieve better outcomes. Independent evaluation is a central part of the project and the outcome...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Apr 2022)
Josepha Madigan: The NCSE has responsibility for planning and coordinating school supports for children with special educational needs including the allocation of SNAs and reviews. My Department does not have a role in making individual school determinations. The Special Needs Assistant (SNA) scheme is designed to provide schools with additional adult support staff who can assist children with special...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Apr 2022)
Josepha Madigan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 828, 830 and 879 together. My Department ran an expanded summer education programme for Summer 2021, as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Under this expansion, students with complex special educational needs and those at greatest risk of educational disadvantage had access to an enhanced summer programme of education. The total funding available to...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Complaints Procedures (26 Apr 2022)
Josepha Madigan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 840 and 842 together. A school's Board of Management is the body charged with the direct governance of the school. The Board of Management is accountable to the school patron. Accordingly, whereas my Department provides funding and policy direction for schools, it does not have the power to instruct schools to follow a particular course of direction with...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Apr 2022)
Josepha Madigan: The NCSE has responsibility for planning and coordinating school supports for children with special educational needs including the allocation of SNAs and reviews. My Department does not have a role in making individual school determinations. The Special Needs Assistant (SNA) scheme is designed to provide schools with additional adult support staff who can assist children with special...