Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the education system within the juvenile justice system has the same inspection regime; standardised testing; supports, as other schools; the additional learning supports that are provided to young offenders; the ratio of pupils to teachers in each of the detention centres, high support centres, and other centres; the measurements that are used to monitor outcomes; the percentage of young offenders whose literacy levels are under Level 1; and the education spend on the juvenile criminal justice system annually. [38976/15]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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My Department's Inspectorate conducts specialised High Support Unit, Special Care Unit and Children Detention Centre inspections in schools attached to these Units/Centres. These schools have been inspected annually since 2011.All Inspection reports are published on my Department's website.

A variety of assessments are carried out in these schools depending on circumstances including age and stage of educational progress of students. The students are of post-primary age and may pursue some Junior Certificate, Leaving Certificate subjects or FETAC programmes.

The pupil teacher ratio in these settings is 6:1. Expenditure on education provision in centres operated by Tusla and the Irish Youth Justice Service in the current school year will be in the order of €4.5 million.