Fee-charging schools urged to take part in audit

A CHURCH of Ireland archbishop has called on fee-charging Protestant schools to open their books to state officials.

Dr Michael Jackson encouraged schools under Church of Ireland management to take part in a Department of Education study on spending.

Dr Jackson, the Archbishop of Dublin, welcomed the audit by Education Minister Ruairi Quinn: “This initiative provides an opportunity for all such schools to show the ways in which fee income is being used to supplement the resources of individual schools.”