Catholic schools leader calls for incentives to amalgamate

The chairman of the Catholic Schools Partnership (CSP) has called for incentives to encourage primary schools to amalgamate.

Fr Michael Drumm, who chairs the body representing Catholic primary and post-primary schools, said something was needed to break the logjam in the divestment of State-funded, Catholic-run primary schools and their transfer to secular patronage.

He said there had been little progress since the Government’s forum on patronage and pluralism in 2012.