Sleep-out planned over lack of special school places

Parents, activists, and special needs assistants protested outside the Department of Education last August over the lack the places.

The backlog of children waiting for critical disability assessments is further exacerbating a severe special education school place shortage and forcing children into inappropriate educational settings.

This warning comes as more than 50 parents of children who do not have a school place for their child for this September are expected on Friday to stage a 24-hour sleep-out at the Department of Education.