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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (14 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: Receipt of public health advice will underpin ongoing engagements with education partners and stakeholders in terms of planning and providing guidance for schools in relation to logistical and curricular arrangements and the issues raised by the Deputy. My Department recognises that additional funding will be required for schools to support enhanced cleaning to prevent COVID-19...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (14 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: I recognise that enhanced cleaning will be required to support schools to prevent COVID-19 infections. My Department is engaging with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on the requirement to provide funding to support enhanced cleaning needs and we will provide further details of the support available once the arrangements are finalised. My Department have also arranged for a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: On Wednesday 1 July 2020, I welcomed the publication of interim public health advice for the safe re-opening of schools in late August/ September. This interim health advice sets out the key public health requirements that will be required for a safe full reopening of schools and the measures that will be required to achieve this.   Receipt of public health advice will underpin...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (14 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: On Wednesday 1 July 2020, I welcomed the publication of interim public health advice for the safe re-opening of schools in late August/September. This interim health advice sets out the key public health requirements that will be required for a safe full reopening of schools and the measures that will be required to achieve this.   Receipt of public health advice will underpin...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education and Skills. The purpose of my Department's School Transport Scheme is, having regard to available resources, to support the transport to and from school of children who reside remote from their nearest school. In the 2019/20 school year over 120,000 children, including...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (14 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: There are currently 68 special classes for children with autism in Co. Tipperary, of which 46 are primary and 22 are post primary.  A list of special classes for the current school year, including special classes for children with autism, is available on the NCSE website . Ensuring that every child has a suitable school placement is a key objective of my...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youthreach Programme (14 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: Statistics regarding  the ethnic background of Youthreach Participants are recorded by Education and Training Boards on a further education and training database, the Programme Learner Support System (PLSS ). The following figures are a unique count of learners enrolled in the Youthreach programme during 2019 as reported on PLSS. However it should be noted...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (14 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: Significant resources are allocated each year to ensure that appropriate supports are available for children with special educational needs. Since 2011, the number of special classes in mainstream schools has increased almost threefold, from 548 to 1,618 for the 2019/2020 school year; with 1,353 of these catering for children with autism. The National Council for Special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (14 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: Summer Provision is aimed at helping children with complex needs prepare for a return to education, particularly after the health restrictions that have been in place over recent months. As work continues on planning for the re-opening of schools, it is important that we take measures help the prevention of regression among these children in terms of their education and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (14 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: The timeframe for sitting the postponed Leaving Certificate 2020 examinations cannot be determined at this time pending public health advice that would identify a safe period of time to do so and pending the confirmation of the number of candidates that will sit each subject. It is not expected that students who seek to rely on the results of the postponed examinations will be able...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Services Staff (14 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: I recognise the very important work done by these staff, and the other support staff in the running of our schools.   In Budget 2020 the number of secretaries and caretakers in certain schools was increased, allowing schools with enrolments of 500-625 to fill secretary vacancies provided they have fewer than 1.5 secretaries; schools with enrolments of 626-699 to fill...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (14 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: Following the school closure in March 2020, my Department published a range of guidance to assist schools and teachers in ensuring continuity of teaching and learning for students as well as supporting their wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic.  This guidance aimed, inter alia, to ensure regular engagement of students in lessons, tasks and learning experiences across the range of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (14 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: The staffing arrangements for primary schools for the 2020/21 school year, as set out in Circular 0018/2020 provides details on the staffing appeal process, which includes a criteria for schools with a significant EAL requirement to apply for additional resources. Since the 2017/18 school year the Special Education Teaching allocation provides a single unified allocation for special...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (14 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: My Department is in the final stages of refinement of the DEIS identification model, based on school enrolment data and the latest data available from Census 2016 under the HP Deprivation Index. This work is at an advanced stage and the initial phase of the consultation process with education stakeholder representatives on the technical aspects of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (14 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: I can confirm that my Department is in receipt of an application for capital funding, for additional accommodation, from the school referred to by the Deputy.  Officials from the Department are communicating with the school authority in this regard and the application is currently under assessment.  As soon as the assessment process is complete a decision will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (14 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: My Department are currently working with the Patron, the School and Design Teams involved in the school referred to by the Deputy, to identify the issues outstanding from the essential first phase fire remediation and external wall structural remediation works which are nearing completion. Once this list of issues has been reviewed by the design team, a meeting will be arranged with the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (14 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: School Transport is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education and Skills. The purpose of my Department's School Transport Scheme is, having regard to available resources, to support the transport to and from school of children who reside remote from their nearest school. In the 2019/20 school year over 120,000 children,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (14 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: The Deputy will be aware that a building project to provide a permanent building for the school in question is included on the Department's Capital Programme to be delivered as part of the National Development Plan (NDP). A site is being acquired for this purpose. In tandem with this, my Department has initiated work on the preparation of the project brief and is liaising with the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (14 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: The National Council for Special Education (NCSE) is responsible for determining the appropriate staffing levels in relation to the support of pupils with special educational needs in special schools, in accordance with the policies of my Department. Special school staffing alloctions are reviewed and updated each year by the NCSE and special schools are staffed on the basis of each...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (14 Jul 2020)

Norma Foley: The criteria for the award of incremental credit to recognised teachers is outlined in my Department’s Circulars 10/2001, Primary, 29/2007 and 29/2010 Post-Primary. The criteria were agreed under the auspices of the Teachers Conciliation Council (TCC) which is comprised of representatives of teachers, school management, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, the...