Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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530. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what determines a school's educational profile; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57132/23]

Josepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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The special education teaching (SET) allocation model provides a single unified allocation for special educational support teaching needs to each school, based on each school’s educational profile.

The SET model has been in place since 2017. It was recommended by the NCSE and is designed to distribute the total available number of special education teachers across primary and post-primary schools based on the relative need of each school, as evidenced by a number of key indicators:

• Baseline component provided to every mainstream school to support inclusion, assistance with learning difficulties and early intervention, and
• A school educational profile component, which takes into account:
• The number of pupils with complex needs enrolled to the school.
• The learning needs of pupils as evidenced by standardised test results for literacy and numeracy.
• The social context of the school including disadvantage and gender