INTO: Removing principals from decision-making on supports is 'anti-education'

“Intrusive questioning” of families requiring educational supports has become a headache for primary school teachers, the INTO congress has heard.

“Elaborate form-filling” and “intrusive questioning” of families requiring educational supports has become a headache for primary school teachers since transfer of several responsibilities to Tusla, the child and family agency, the INTO congress has heard.

A decision five years ago to assign the home school community liaison scheme and the school completion programme to Tusla has increased the workload for certain primary school staff, the INTO annual congress in Galway was told.