Greens’ plan for drop-out pupils

THE Green Party has proposed a tracking system to quickly identify the hundreds of children who drop out of education after primary school every year.

The system to be based on each child’s Personal Public Service (PPS) number would be included in policy for any government the party helps to form, according to education spokesperson Paul Gogarty.

He said it was essential that mechanisms are created to monitor movements of the estimated 1,000 children who fail to move on to second level annually.