Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 1402: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the progress in regard to the commitment given in the programme for Government to ensure that the new boards of management that will take up office in late 2007 have access to training and support on a wide range of issues. [47960/08]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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Intensive training for boards of management took place in 2007 and 2008 including the new boards at primary level. The essential core areas that are covered in the training are Financial Management, Child Protection Guidelines, Health & Safety, Employment Law and Human Resource Management. Other areas that are covered in training include Background Information re: the Education System, Role and Function of the Board, How a BoM Operates, Policies and Procedures. All representative bodies form part of the Steering Committee for BoM training and these bodies also provide training in additional areas which they identify pertaining to their respective values.

My Department has provided funding of €1,060,000 to date for this training which has proved extremely worthwhile and will remain committed to ensuring that the boards of management of schools will continue to receive appropriate training to tackle the issues that they will face in the ever changing needs of schools.