VEC staff may be moved to meet targets

DOZENS of support staff in Vocational Education Committees (VECs) may have to be moved to other areas of the public sector next year to help meet staffing reduction targets.

In addition to more than 9,200 teachers in its second-level schools and further education colleges, the 33 VECs employ just over 2,000 non-teaching staff.

While most are clerical and administration staff, they also include school caretakers and secretaries, staff running adult education and Youthreach prog-rammes, and those working in crèches at VEC centres.