Schools ‘facing time-bomb of potential cases’

Niall Murray, Education Correspondent

Michael Moriarty, general secretary of the Irish Vocational Education Association (IVEA), said this country could be heading in the same direction as Britain, where compensation cases arising from school settings have reached almost 300 million a year.

The IVEA is the umbrella body for the country’s 33 Vocational Education Committees (VECs), which run 247 second-level schools and dozens of colleges in the growing further education sector.