‘I will withdraw my daughter over cuts’
As a result of the review of support services by the National Council for Special Education the Castlebar girl risks losing the full-time SNA who helps her at her special school.
The 11-year-old has a lower learning disability and mobility issues which require constant care at home as well as at St Anthony’s Special School in Castlebar, where she has been a pupil since September 2008. The number of SNAs at the school is set to be reduced from 13 to nine, meaning she will only have access to a care assistant for as little as a quarter of each school day.
