Cuts in services for pupils at risk of dropping out
- Published: 10 October 2008
By Katherine Donnelly
Homework clubs and other frontline services for children at risk of early school-leaving face cutbacks, the Oireachtas Committee on Education and Science heard yesterday.
A 3pc cut announced in August will shave €1m off the budget of the School Completion Programme, which works with 25,000 of the most disadvantaged school children, at primary and post-primary level.
There are currently 124 projects in 692 schools.
The committee agreed to ask the Department of Education to carry out a review of the impact of the cuts.
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