Special needs children get full day of school [rte.ie]
- Published: 26 October 2011
Three children with special educational needs began their first full day at school this morning - two months after everyone else.
Their school, St Raphael's Special School in Cellbridge, has been accommodating them for just one hour per day because it said it did not have enough Special Needs Assistants.
In September, the Department of Education was highly critical of the school's stance. It said the school had enough assistants.
But now the Department has agreed to provide two more SNAs after a formal assessment deemed they were needed.
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