Fighting for their future

Education Correspondent Niall Murray spent a day with an Educational Welfare Officer and found there is more to poor school attendance than children playing truant.

ON a cold spring morning, Kay Hodgins visits a number of schools in a southside suburb of Cork.

Her first call of the day is to the principal of a 220-pupil primary school who worked with Kay for many years before she became an Educational Welfare Officer (EWO).