New Deis strategy and Deis Plus scheme to receive funding of €48m

Schools in the new Deis Plus scheme — including 12 in Cork — will receive extra 'intensive, tailored supports'

Hildegarde Naughton at St Aidan's Community School, Tallaght, where she announced a €48m investment in a new Deis strategy and Deis Plus scheme. Picture: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall 

The country's most disadvantaged schools will receive additional supports under a newly-announced €48m annual scheme.

Education minister Hildegarde Naughton on Wednesday announced a new Deis strategy for schools, as well as a new Deis Plus scheme which will see an additional €48m put into 121 schools with the highest levels of disadvantage.