Parents providing 30% of funds for voluntary secondaries

Parents are now providing over 30% of funding in voluntary contributions to help run secondary schools.

The president of the Joint Managerial Body (JMB), representing more than 400 voluntary secondary schools, also said the financial burden on such schools remained at crisis point.

“The combination of decreasing departmental support and the increasing inability of our parents to financially support us is proving crippling,” said Fr Paul Connell. “The question of equalisation of funding between schools is therefore all the more urgent.”