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Thursday, 16 October 2014

Department of Education and Skills

Educational Disadvantage

Photo of Tommy BroughanTommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the status of research commissioned by her Department in relation to DEIS policy; and her position on whether this will result in the allocation of additional resources for DEIS schools. [39612/14]

Photo of Jan O'SullivanJan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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As the Deputy may be aware, the DEIS programme is the subject of ongoing evaluation by both the Educational Research Centre and my Department's Inspectorate who have produced a series of evaluation reports to date, (copies of which are available on my Department's website). I have also recently commissioned a further overall report in relation to DEIS to provide recommendations for a renewal of Government policy in relation to educational disadvantage, including DEIS. Work on this report is currently underway. The current focus of my Department is on this ongoing evaluation and distilling the learning from the research to date while awaiting the outcome of the aforementioned report. My key priority is to continue to prioritise and target resources at schools with the most concentrated levels of disadvantage and there are no plans for any additionality to the DEIS programme at this time.

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