Cuts to summer schemes condemned [Independent.ie]
- Published: 28 June 2010
Education Minister Caitriona Ruane has blamed education boards for cutting summer schemes for children with special needs.
The Sinn Fein minister also accused the DUP of opposing reforms that would see the boards replaced by a single Education and Skills Authority (ESA).
But MLAs tabled an urgent question at the Assembly to challenge the minister on the removal of funding for a number of summer schemes for children with learning disabilities and asked what her department is doing to help.
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