‘We must target resources at children who need them most’

The NCSE maintains the new system will be fairer and more transparent, but acknowledges there will be anxiety for parents, writes Education Correspondent Niall Murray.

UNDER a system proposed by the National Council for Special Education on foot of a working group’s consultations with education groups over the past year, each school would be allocated most of their special education teachers on the basis of three criteria.

The main one would be the number of pupils with complex special educational needs, but the numbers who score well belowaverage on reading and maths tests, as well as the social context of a school, would also be taken into account.