Published: 16 August 2011

Call for school library funds to be restored

THE GOVERNMENT must restore the school library service for its new literacy strategy to work, Ireland’s children’s laureate said yesterday.

Funding for classroom libraries “runs completely counter to the Government strategy on literacy” and “disproportionately affects the children who are most excluded”, Dr Siobhán Parkinson said.

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