{"id":246,"date":"2011-03-30T17:23:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T17:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/cap-on-special-needs-assistants-a-travesty-crowe\/"},"modified":"2011-03-30T17:23:54","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T17:23:54","slug":"cap-on-special-needs-assistants-a-travesty-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/cap-on-special-needs-assistants-a-travesty-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Cap on Special Needs Assistants a travesty \u2013 Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cap on Special Needs Assistants a travesty \u2013 <span class=\"il\">Crowe<\/span><\/p>\n<p> Sinn F\u00e9in Spokesperson on Education Se\u00e1n <span class=\"il\">Crowe<\/span> has called on Labour<br \/> Minister for Education and Skills Ruair\u00ed Quinn not to implement the<br \/> proposed cap on Special Needs Assistants.<\/p>\n<p> Describing the cap as \u2018a travesty\u2019 Deputy <span class=\"il\">Crowe<\/span> said that pupils should be<br \/> allocated Special Needs Assistants based on educational need alone.<\/p>\n<p> Deputy <span class=\"il\">Crowe<\/span> said:<\/p>\n<p> \u201cIt is not acceptable that children with special needs would go without the<br \/> appropriate support to see them through their education. Leaving children<br \/> without these supports is a travesty.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cPupils should be allocated Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) based on<br \/> educational need alone.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cSNAs are not overpaid, quite the opposite, they receive just a little more<br \/> than the minimum wage \u2013 less than \u20ac12 an hour. Money can be saved<br \/> elsewhere. This is about priorities and looking after the educational<br \/> prospects of our most vulnerable children must be made a priority.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe SNA cut is a nightmare for schools but an even bigger nightmare for<br \/> families of children with special needs.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI am asking the new Minister for Education and Skills to make a stand for<br \/> children with Special Educational Needs. I welcome his commitment to review<br \/> the arbitrary deadline for the awarding of SNAs. This deadline makes no<br \/> sense to schools considering that there is no way of knowing how many new<br \/> entrants have special needs and how many newly diagnosed children there<br \/> will be.<\/p>\n<p> The Minister must ensure that children with Special Educational Needs have<br \/> access to an SNA based on educational need alone and not on how many SNAs<br \/> the Government is willing to pay.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cap on Special Needs Assistants a travesty \u2013 Crowe Sinn F\u00e9in Spokesperson on Education Se\u00e1n Crowe has called on Labour Minister for Education and Skills Ruair\u00ed Quinn not to implement the proposed cap on Special Needs Assistants. Describing the cap as \u2018a travesty\u2019 Deputy Crowe said that pupils should be allocated Special Needs Assistants based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","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=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}