Disability laws not ‘implementable’

SCHOOLS will be unable to operate new laws to improve education for disabled children unless adequate resources are put in place, a teachers union leader said at the weekend.

John Carr, general secretary of the Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO), said the Education for Persons with Disabilities Bill increases demands on already overworked principals. The Bill is at committee stage in the Oireachtas and is expected to be passed by the Government by the end of the year.

But the INTO believes the extra work for schools in formulating education plans for children with learning difficulties and mental or physical disabilities may be hard to implement.