Children with special needs are unable to attend the school deemed most suitable for them as they do not qualify, under strict rules, for school transport.

The number of weekly resource teaching hours for children with special educational needs will be kept at current levels in the next school year, Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has promised.

JUST over a dozen extra special needs assistants (SNAs) have been allocated to pupils who need care in the classroom despite the withholding of hundreds of posts by the Department of Education.

TWENTY-THREE children with special needs were welcomed into their new school in Dublin this week and then told an hour later that there was no place for them.