THE Department of Education has confirmed that eight autistic children whose school was closed down in the summer will have to receive home tuition while places are found for them.

A Dublin school which caters for children with autism is to close today after the Department of Education turned down funding proposals from the Achieve ABA school.

PARENTS of children with autism whose school in north Dublin is being closed due to lack of public funding say they are having trouble finding them places elsewhere for next September.