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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (12 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Teacher allocations to all second level schools are approved annually by my Department in accordance with established rules based on recognised pupil enrolment. The criteria for the allocation of posts are communicated to school managements annually and are available on the Department website. In accordance with these rules each school management authority is required to organise its subject...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme Administration (12 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy was advised on April 30th 2013 that the Home Tuition Scheme operated by my Department is designed to support children who are not in a position to attend school and, because of this, it is generally the case that the tuition is provided at the child's place of residence. In the majority of cases therefore, there will be 1 child in receipt of an individualised educational programme...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (12 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The State Examinations Commission has statutory responsibility for operational matters relating to the certificate examinations. The State Examinations Commission operates a scheme of Reasonable Accommodations in the Certificate examinations. Applications for such accommodations are submitted by schools on behalf of their students. Full details of the scheme are available for downloading...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (12 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The National Council for Special Education is currently at an advanced stage in the preparation of policy advice on the education of children with autism. I expect that the NCSE final report, which is due to be delivered shortly, will reflect the broadest possible range of views, both National and International, and will provide recommendations which will assist the development of policy on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (12 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Deputy will be aware that the Home Tuition Scheme is designed to support children who are not in a position to attend school and, because of this, it is generally the case that the tuition is provided at the child's place of residence. In the majority of cases therefore, there will be 1 child in receipt of an individualised educational programme on a 1:1 basis. Funding is provided by my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Transition Year Selection Process (12 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Transition Year (TY) is a one-year programme designed to act as a bridge between the Junior Certificate and Leaving Certificate programmes. It is available to all second level schools. The management authority of each school carries responsibility for making decisions regarding the Transition Year Programme in that school. In some schools, the programme is compulsory for all students....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (12 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department is in the process of updating its estimate of the impact of demographics on expenditure on the Education and Skills Vote, to take account of latest available projections of pupil numbers over the years ahead. It is planned that this exercise will be completed shortly. However, earlier indicative figures of the cost of providing for demographics were set out in an analytical...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (12 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department is currently carrying out a nationwide demographic exercise to determine where additional post-primary school places might be needed from 2017 onwards. This includes an examination of the Newbridge area. On foot of this review, arrangements will be made to provide additional post-primary accommodation where this is needed. In the meantime, a building project to provide for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Shared Services (12 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Department of Education and Skills, under the mandate of the Public Service Reform Plan for 2014 – 2016, published the Education and Training Sector Shared Services Plan 2014 – 2016. The Shared Services Plan committed to an extensive programme of reform which includes projects for Higher Education, the schools sector, SOLAS and the Education and Training Boards (ETB's), the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (7 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that funding has been approved for universal access works at the school in question and the school authority has been notified.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (7 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is responsible, through its network of local Special Educational Needs Organisers (SENOs) for allocating a quantum of Special Needs Assistant (SNA) support for each school annually taking into account the assessed care needs of children qualifying for SNA support enrolled in the school. Where children have...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (7 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department, through the teacher support services and education centres, engages teachers on a full time basis annually for the provision of continuing professional development (CPD) through secondment from their schools. These secondments are subject to annual review. The arrangements provide flexibility and ensure that the in-service needs of teachers and other support priorities of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme (7 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department administers a Home Tuition Scheme which provides a compensatory educational service for children who, for a number of reasons including chronic illness such as Cystic Fibrosis, are unable to attend school or absent for a significant proportion of the school year and where the degree of absence is such that without supplementary instruction the pupil is unlikely to be able to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (7 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: Budget 2014 provided funding of €5 million per annum for three years to support the establishment of book rental schemes in primary schools that did not operate such schemes. DEIS schools will receive €150 per child and non-DEIS schools will receive €100 per child in seed capital to establish book rental schemes. The schools which qualified for funding under this scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (7 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The criteria used for the allocation of teachers to schools is published annually on the Department's website. The key factor for determining the level of staffing resources provided at individual school level is the staffing schedule for the relevant school year and pupil enrolments on the previous 30 September. The staffing arrangements for the coming school year 2015/16 are set out in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home-School Liaison Scheme (7 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The Home School Community Liaison (HSCL) Scheme operates in Urban and Post Primary Schools included in DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools), my Department's Action Plan for educational inclusion. Participating schools are allocated additional teaching posts through the assignment of HSCL Coordinators to individual schools or clusters of schools. Circular 0058/2013...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (7 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department calculates the staffing and grant allocations for primary and post primary schools on the basis of the total number of 'recognised' pupils enrolled in the school on 30th September of the previous year. The Rules and Programmes for Secondary Schools define a "recognised pupil" as a pupil who is not less than 12 years of age on the 1st day of January of the school year; who as a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (7 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: As the Deputy may be aware, the Department of Education and Skills has worked in partnership with Fingal County Council under the Fingal School Model Agreement to acquire sites for educational provision in the Fingal area. The Fingal Model Agreement was signed into effect in July 2006. It represented the first attempt at formalising the interactions between the Department and a local...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (7 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: The school referred to by the Deputy was approved a devolved grant in March 2013 to build four additional classrooms to cater for demographic growth. This project, when completed, will provide accommodation for a staffing level of 24 mainstream teachers in the school. The school is recognised as a 3-stream school by my Department i.e. with capacity for 24 mainstream classes. The school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Placement (7 May 2015)

Jan O'Sullivan: My Department is currently carrying out a nationwide demographic exercise to determine where additional post-primary school places might be needed from 2017 onwards. This includes an examination of the Kildare South area. On foot of this review, arrangements will be made to provide additional post-primary accommodation where this is needed. In the meantime, as previously advised, a...