School ordered to pay €3.5k over refusal to take TY student with nut allergy on school trip to France

A secondary school has been ordered to pay €3,500 to a Transition Year (TY) student with a life-threatening nut allergy over discriminating against her when not allowing her to go on a school trip to France.

At the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), Adjudication Officer, James Kelly stated that the school’s decision not to allow the teenage girl travel on the trip was not predicated on malice.