Over 700 Children With Special Educational Needs Do Not Have School Places Or Early Intervention Support.

Friday, 2 July 2021 10:08

This includes 210 children who are without a school place.

730 children with special educational needs do not have school places or early intervention support.

This includes 210 children who are without a school place, and 522 children who are without early intervention support.

Of the school age children, 88 children have no special school placement, 37 children who turn six during the year, and a further 85 children who are over the age of six without a school place.

The data released via a parliamentary question to Pádraig O’Sullivan, Fianna Fáil TD for Cork North Central,

More than 730 children with special educational needs are not in school or in an early intervention class and are instead receiving home tuition as they do not have a school place | @Jessjcasey reports https://t.co/wzNnRlMQTu
— Irish Examiner (@irishexaminer) June 30, 2021

Home tuition will not be available where a school placement has been identified by the National Council for Special Education

Lorraine Dempsey is Interim CEO of Inclusion Ireland, and joined Clem Ryan on Friday's edition of Kildare Today.

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