Education report - Resources key to tackle inequalities

The first report of the Educational Disadvantage Committee, which represents the views of a considerable constituency of organisations involved in the field, would appear to be a commitment to common sense.

The report recognises that money alone will not solve the problems attendant on educational disadvantage, and that a streamlining and integration of resources in order to avoid duplication, would be more effective in achieving results.

It also has the virtue that the Committee and the Minister for Education, Noel Dempsey, appear to be singing from the same hymnsheet insofar as where trying to achieve educational inclusion on a strategic basis is concerned.