Parents of children with special needs to stage second sleep-out over lack of school places

Parents protest outside the Department of Education in February over lack of school places for their children. Picture: Sam Boal/Collins Photos

Parents are to stage another 24-hour sleep out, this time outside Leinster House, in an effort to draw urgent attention to what they describe as an ongoing crisis in special education.

A group of more than 200 parents of children who are without appropriate school places will stage the protest on Wednesday to coincide with World Autism Awareness Day.