Quinn urged to divert payments from fee-paying schools

Education workers have called on the Government to divert money paid to fee-paying schools to areas “of greatest need” in the education system.

A resolution was passed yesterday by non-teaching education staff at Impact’s annual conference in Kilkenny, where delegates passed a number of motions urging greater support for special needs assistants (SNAs) and staff working in vulnerable areas of the education sector.

One of the motions, proposed by the union’s VEC branch, demanded “that monies designated for the subvention of private schools be more properly diverted to areas of greatest need” within education.