SNAs to help children with disabilities during crisis, Department of Education says

Children with a disability as the initial priority area in terms of temporary assignment of SNAs, the HSE said.

Minister for Education Joe McHugh

Special needs assistants are to be deployed into the HSE’s children’s disability services while schools are closed, the Department of Education has said.

School principals, boards of management and ETBs have been asked by the Department to identify school staff who can be reassigned to critical work areas on a temporary basis, representative trade union Fórsa said.