Written answers
Wednesday, 29 June 2005
Department of Education and Science
School Completion Programme
10:00 pm
Tom Hayes (Tipperary South, Fine Gael)
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Question 422: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action being taken to extend the school completion programme to all schools. [23071/05]
Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The new action plan for educational inclusion, Delivering Equality Of Opportunity In Schools, which I launched recently provides for a standardised system for identifying levels of disadvantage and a new integrated school support programme which will bring together and build upon several existing interventions for schools with a concentrated level of disadvantage.
The new action plan will be introduced on a phased basis in the next school year and will involve an additional annual investment of €40 million on full implementation. Approximately 600 primary schools and 150 post-primary schools will be identified for participation in the school support programme arising from the identification process and these will be targeted for particular support over the next five years. The programme services will be extended to all urban-town primary schools and second level schools participating in it and not already benefiting from these services. Integration of school completion programme services into the school support programme framework will be effected over the five-year implementation timeframe.
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