The level of investment provided for in the current Estimate enables us to maintain existing services and make further progress in the primary and post-primary sectors with increased provision for resource teachers and special needs assistants in primary schools; increased provision for school retention initiatives generally, including the school completion programme, involving in excess of 370 primary and post-primary schools in 82 clusters with a budget in 2003 in the order of €23 million, up from €15.4 million in 2002; the Giving Children an Even Break programme which applies to 2,320 primary schools and involves the appointment of more than 200 additional teachers to ensure maximum class sizes in junior classes in those disadvantaged schools with the highest proportion of disadvantaged pupils will be 20 – the expenditure for this programme, combined with the resources dedicated to the Breaking the Cycle project, the support teacher project and the disadvantaged areas scheme, will be over €36.7 million in 2003; continued support for the home-school-community liaison service in all primary and second level schools with designated disadvantaged areas status. In addition to these schemes and initiatives, there is a wide range of other supports, including those for Traveller children, children of non-nationals and other vulnerable groups.