Children with Special Needs facing uphill battle for resources – Crowe<\/p>\n
Dublin South West TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe has claimed that parents with
\nchildren with special needs are facing an uphill struggle getting and
\nholding on to resources.as they move from primary to secondary
\neducation.<\/p>\n
Crowe said that the process should be seamless with trapdoors that
\ncurrently exist for students moving from one school to another removed
\nand that educational supports need to travel throughout the education
\ncycle with the child.<\/p>\n
The government has promised additional funding in the budget, but
\nthis will not benefit any of the children who have been informed of a
\ncut to their early learning entitlement in recent weeks.<\/p>\n
Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said:<\/p>\n
\n“Parents with a child of school going age and with special needs face
\nan uphill battle to get resources for their child or children.<\/p>\n“The first barrier they confront is trying to get a school to take
\ntheir loved one and depending on the resources of the school, getting
\nsupports for their child.<\/p>\n“Parents of children with special educational needs are literally worn
\nout by the demands of their loved one and should not have to go to
\nwhat seems like the ends of the earth to get support.<\/p>\n“The lack of continuity in support services from primary to
\npost-primary schools continues to impact negatively on children. It
\nshould be seamless and the trapdoors that currently exist for a
\nstudent moving from one school to another need to be removed.<\/p>\n“Former and the current Minister for Education have promised reforms
\nbut the gaps and the huge effort to keep educational supports
\ncontinue to be made difficult.<\/p>\n“Surely if a psychologist has said the child need supports and the
\ndisability determines that they need supports, then\u00a0 they should get
\nthose supports.<\/p>\n“Why cant we have a\u00a0 system that looks at the child and determines what
\nthey actually need for supports during their time in the education
\nsystem and the supports stays with the child.<\/p>\n“Five years ago a free pre-school year was introduced, giving families
\nan entitlement of 15 hours early learning for each child prior to
\ntheir entry into primary school.<\/p>\n“This initiative has not been backed up by sufficient resources with
\nthe most vulnerable cohort, children with special needs, not getting
\nthe supports they require – whether it be in terms of access to
\npre-school services, or insufficient services within the pre-school
\nsetting.<\/p>\n“It is unacceptable that there are currently children with special
\nneeds who are having their hours cut. These are families that have
\nfought tooth and nail to attain the supports their children need.<\/p>\n“The Government have promised additional funding in the upcoming
\nbudget, but\u00a0 currently parents\u00a0 face an uphill battle to access and
\nhold onto the educational supports their children need for their
\ndevelopment.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Children with Special Needs facing uphill battle for resources – Crowe Dublin South West TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe has claimed that parents with children with special needs are facing an uphill struggle getting and holding on to resources.as they move from primary to secondary education. Crowe said that the process should be seamless with trapdoors that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2281,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions\/2281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}