Disability groups excluded from special needs planning

The National Council for Special Education has been criticised for excluding disability organisations from a group planning changes to how special needs teachers are allocated to schools.

Inclusion Ireland said it will raise their exclusion from the NCSE working group, which Education Minister Ruairi Quinn promised in June would include advocacy groups, at a meeting tomorrow.

The 14-member group was set up to devise a new way to allocate resource teachers to schools, based on their student profile but reducing the time children with disabilities should wait for supports.