State to regulate school enrolment

THE question of how schools should decide which children to enrol is to be set down by state regulations.

They are likely to include stipulations that the attendance of a parent or sibling should not be used to determine a child’s eligibility for a place in a school.

The Department of Education said it noted yesterday’s ruling at Clonmel Circuit Court, in which a secondary school’s decision not to enrol a Traveller boy was upheld after its appeal against an earlier Equality Tribunal decision.