Schools seeking financial help from charity [Independent.ie]
- Published: 07 April 2010
GROWING numbers of hard-up families and schools are seeking financial help from the St Vincent de Paul (SVP) because of education cuts.
Now the charity has appealed for no changes to textbooks for next September, to take the pressure off parents' pockets.
The call came as a teachers' union leader attacked the Government bailout of the banks and bankers, at a time when the school book grant, which benefited 288,000 pupils from needy families in 2008, was cut.
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