Education and Training Boards reject conflict claims

Education and training boards have rejected claims of a conflict in their involvement with surveys of parents in areas where they may seek to become new school patrons.

The parents of pre-school children in one area under each of the 16 ETB’s administrative region are to be surveyed about the need for more diversity of primary school patronage.

The plan is to then also have consultations with parents and staff of existing local schools, which are mostly under Catholic patronage, before plans are made for the live transfer of schools to a new patron.