EA Confirms U-Turn on Special Needs Summer Schemes

Special needs summer schools to go ahead following EA u-turn

The Education Authority (EA) has confirmed that summer schemes for children with special needs will now go ahead as planned after the Department of…

Northern Ireland special school summer schemes will go ahead following backlash

Alliance’s Eoin Tennyson called the Education and Health Ministers’ handling of the issue ‘incompetent’.

Summer schemes at special schools to go ahead following talks and U-turn

A workable solution to allow special educational needs (SEN) summer schemes to go ahead this year has been welcomed by local political representatives.

EA confirms u-turn on special needs summer schemes

Stormont had been due to be recalled on Tuesday to discuss the issue

Education Minister asks for cancellation of special school ...

Incompetence – or are special needs children being used as political footballs?

Yesterday I wrote about the Education Authority’s decision not to run summer schemes for children with special needs. By the afternoon, that position had quietly evaporated. Suddenly, everything was back on. Funding found, problems solved, show back on the road. Which does raise an awkward question. If this could be fixed in the space of a few hours, why was it apparently intractable for the past year? You can take a charitable view. Large publi…