Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail)
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266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the allocation model for resource and learning support for children with special needs that will apply in newly founded schools. [18111/17]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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Department of Education and Skills Circulars DES 0013/2017 and DES 0014/2017 set out details of a new model for allocating Special Education Teachers to mainstream primary and post primary schools.

The Education Research Centre has calculated profiled allocations for all schools, based on the criteria set out in these Circulars.

Where new schools have opened recently, once the Department becomes aware of the enrolments applicable for such schools, the Education Research Centre will be asked to calculate a value for this school, based on the school enrolment.

Where new schools have opened recently, such schools may not have all data for which school profiles are calculated, such as standardised test score data.

Where data is not available for a particular component of the profile, the national average allocation across the school system will be applied to the school for each component of the model, on a proportionate basis, based on school enrolments.

Once this data becomes available or for future reviews of the allocation model, the updated data for these schools will be used.